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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.

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Unite votes to back PR voting in Westminster elections

Basit Mahmood
22 October, 2021

“Our political class has failed working people and our system is broken. It is time to change our democracy.”

Ban fire and rehire

Workers across the country urge MPs to back bill to ban Fire and Rehire

Basit Mahmood
22 October, 2021

“If the Tories don’t make it illegal, the next Labour government will.”

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Number of Tory MPs refuse to wear masks even after Sajid Javid’s plea to ‘set an example’

Basit Mahmood
21 October, 2021

“I’m looking round the house today and I’m looking at my Conservative colleagues… I think there’s four out of fourteen wearing a facemask this morning.”

How a wealth tax could bring in more than £200bn in extra revenue to fund public services

Basit Mahmood
21 October, 2021

‘The accumulation of wealth is largely ignored. It’s time for this to change.’

Sajid Javid press conference

British Medical Association slams government for being ‘wilfully negligent’ for not enforcing Covid ‘Plan B’

Basit Mahmood
21 October, 2021

‘The Westminster Government said it would enact ‘Plan B’ to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed; as doctors working on the frontline, we can categorically say that time is now.’

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, October 2021

Basit Mahmood
20 October, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

Cleaners win better pay at university of Sheffield

Cleaning staff win campaign for £10 per hour wage at University of Sheffield

Basit Mahmood
20 October, 2021

The University’s management have now signed an agreement with Unite representatives to confirm the decision to increase the workers’ pay from £9.52 to £10 an hour.

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EXCLUSIVE: Majority of UK voters want a four-day working week, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
20 October, 2021

60% of those asked were in favour of introducing a four-day working week in the UK, compared to 26% who opposed the move

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Why government grants to replace gas boilers with heat pumps don’t go far enough

Basit Mahmood
19 October, 2021

Although up to 25 million UK homes have gas boilers, the grants will fund just 90,000 pumps over three years

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EXCLUSIVE: 60% of UK adults support bringing energy companies back into public ownership, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
19 October, 2021

73% of Labour Party voters supported bringing energy companies back into public ownership, as did 60% of Conservative Party voters

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