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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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Basit Mahmood
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Candidates for the Unite general secretary election are making a final push in the last days of campaigning.

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Prem Sikka
20 August, 2021

‘One reason for the persistence of inequalities is that too many legislators are far removed from the social world inhabited by marginalised people’.

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Basit Mahmood
20 August, 2021

‘The don’t sack me tweet’.

Peer condemned over Islamophobic comments during Afghanistan debate

Basit Mahmood
19 August, 2021

‘The number of people who seem to equate the Taliban with all Muslims and Islam as a whole shows an outstanding level of ignorance’.

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Dominic Raab urged to quit after being ‘too busy’ on holiday to make phone call about saving Afghan interpreters

Basit Mahmood
19 August, 2021

The foreign secretary was in Crete on Sunday while the Taliban was taking over Kabul.

Amelia Womack and Tamsin Omond: Our first 100 days as Green Party co-leaders

Amelia Womack Tamsin Omond
19 August, 2021

‘In our first 100 days as leaders, we will meet with the UK’s leading progressive thinkers and movements to understand and promote the best ideas for a low-carbon future’

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Natalie Bennett: War in Afghanistan was a catastrophic failure. We can’t afford more mistakes in its aftermath

Natalie Bennett
18 August, 2021

The UK government should be guaranteeing refuge to all who need it and stop peddling arms

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Josiah Mortimer
18 August, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

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EXCLUSIVE: GMB union staff to be balloted for strike action over alleged harassment and pay

Josiah Mortimer
18 August, 2021

The dispute marks the continued fallout from allegations of sexual harassment revealed last year, as well as concerns over pay.

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UnionDues: The ADCU union and the battle for Uber drivers’ rights

Simon Sapper
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How do you organise app-based workers? Simon Sapper explores the issue in this UnionDues special.

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