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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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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Extinction Rebellion: Government must end investment in fossil fuels immediately

Basit Mahmood
27 August, 2021

“We know that mass participation and civil disobedience works”.

London

Prof Prem Sikka: Why audits of major corporations need to be performed by a state body and not chummy auditors

Prem Sikka
27 August, 2021

‘Profit-seeking accounting firms cannot deliver honest and robust audits. But the government continues to indulge the auditing industry’.

Tories slammed after ordering NHS trusts to describe refurbishments as ‘new hospitals’

Basit Mahmood
27 August, 2021

The guidance issued to trusts goes on to define what constitutes a new hospital.

Always learning: our manifesto for liberation, within the Green Party and beyond

Amelia Womack
27 August, 2021

‘It’s easy to assume that as time moves forward, our society becomes more progressive and accepting of previously marginalised groups. But the last few years have shown us that there is always a risk of sliding backwards on the rights of minorities’.

Brexit anniversary

How the upcoming Elections Bill will cause chaos with EU citizens’ voting rights

Maddy Dhesi
26 August, 2021

‘As it stands, the Elections Bill will disenfranchise countless citizens who do not qualify for the EU Settlement Scheme’.

Eton

EXCLUSIVE: Voters support abolishing private schools

Basit Mahmood
26 August, 2021

Polling also found that 58% of those asked supported private schools losing their charitable status if they did not admit a high proportion of students from deprived backgrounds

What does Sharon Graham’s win mean for Unite and the Labour Party

Basit Mahmood
26 August, 2021

There is no doubt that Graham’s win will mean a major organisational shake up for Unite

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6 things we learnt from the first Green Party leadership hustings

Chris Jarvis
25 August, 2021

Anti-capitalism, progressive alliances, trans rights and more: here’s how the debate is shaping up.

BREAKING: Unite confirms Sharon Graham as victor in leadership election

Josiah Mortimer
25 August, 2021

The tight result sees Unite elect its first ever female General Secretary.

Foreign Secretary gets his facts wrong over poll showing voters want him to quit

Josiah Mortimer
25 August, 2021

Clearly Mr Raab needs another long holiday on a Greek island to clear his head.

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