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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 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 (3 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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EXCLUSIVE: Fears disabled MPs could be locked out of Parliament, ahead of shut down of virtual proceedings

Josiah Mortimer
14 July, 2021

Allowing vulnerable MPs to participate in debates remotely ‘may be just as necessary in two months time as it was twelve months ago’, LFF is told.

Sian Berry

BREAKING: Sian Berry to stand down as Green Party co-leader in opposition to ‘transphobic’ party appointment

Josiah Mortimer
14 July, 2021

“There is now an inconsistency between the sincere promise to fight for trans rights and inclusion in my work and the message sent by the party’s choice of front bench representatives.”

A photo of a London underground train run by TFL with passengers wearing masks

Letting the mask slip: What’s really behind the Tories’ unlocking plans

Maheen Behrana
14 July, 2021

We’re back to the era of sink or swim. In a pandemic, it heralds chaos, writes Maheen Behrana.

Natalie Bennett: The treatment of our planet is criminal. That crime needs to be named

Natalie Bennett
13 July, 2021

It’s time for make ‘ecocide’ a crime in the UK, writes the Green peer.

Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham

Unite leadership race: Sharon Graham on strikes, sexism, and the myth of ‘splitting the vote’

Josiah Mortimer
13 July, 2021

“The movement is on life support,” the Unite General Secretary candidate tells LFF.

Fears for safety as fire service cuts are ‘incentivised’ following MoD outsourcing

LFF Reporter
13 July, 2021

MoD outsourcing undermines workers’ conditions, is inefficient and risks safety, Unite warns select committee.

Pressure mounts for M&S to stop labelling farmed salmon ‘responsibly-sourced’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 July, 2021

The UK retailer is accused of greenwashing harmful products as action against salmon-farming ramps up.

UK was not fully prepared for the Covid pandemic

Johnson’s reckless approach will result in yet more suffering and death

Roy Wilkes
12 July, 2021

Personal responsibility won’t end the crisis. Instead, we need a communal approach and a government that does everything it can to suppress this dangerous virus, writes Roy Wilkes of Zero Covid.

Solidarity builds against ‘unjust job cuts’ at Liverpool University

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 July, 2021

Trade union and labour movement support escalates for the global academic boycott of the University of Liverpool.

EXCLUSIVE: Estate agent promises ‘action’ over racist football tweet

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 July, 2021

Savills vows to carry out a full investigation into an alleged employee’s xenophobic football Twitter post.

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