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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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climate change

Community renewable energy can play a key part in the transition to a net-zero carbon future

Natalie Boyd Williams
8 July, 2021

‘As communities transform into energy generators, they move beyond passive consumers into active democratic actors against climate change’.

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, July 2021

Josiah Mortimer
7 July, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

Health and Care Bill means lucrative NHS contracts will be dished out ‘without competition’

LFF Reporter
7 July, 2021

“More companies could be given access to confidential patient information, with no clear protection for patient privacy.”

What are the Unite union leadership candidates saying in the first week of voting?

Josiah Mortimer
7 July, 2021

McCluskey reveals who he’s backing, while candidates add their voices to workplace disputes. Pictured (L-R) – Turner, Coyne, and Graham.

EXCLUSIVE: Voters demand investigation into whether Hancock broke the ministerial code over aide affair

Josiah Mortimer
6 July, 2021

Even Tory voters want an official probe into the scandal, polling for LFF reveals.

Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham: Tories’ divisive approach to ‘levelling up’ will hurt the UK

Josiah Mortimer
6 July, 2021

It follows a series of scandals over ‘pork barrel’ politics in the government’s levelling up spending.

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UnionDues: What was behind the ‘world’s biggest strike’?

Simon Sapper
6 July, 2021

The latest UnionDues podcast goes behind the headlines of the 2020 General Strike in India. Some of the issues are familiar to the UK…

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak’s plans to take £1.2bn from miners’ pensions dubbed ‘daylight robbery’ from ‘brave men’

Lucy Skoulding
5 July, 2021

Scrapping plans give miners £1.2 billion in pensions has been called “cruel” and a “kick in the teeth” to retired miners and their families.

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GB News’ Neil Oliver slammed over ‘anti-scientific, dangerous’ anti-vaxx tweet

Lucy Skoulding
5 July, 2021

GB News has tweeted a story by Neil Oliver in which he says giving Covid jabs to children is ‘grotesque’.

The Left should recognise there’s no such thing as ‘The Economy’

Steve Melia
5 July, 2021

The Labour Party has oscillated between trying to “out-Tory the Tories” on the economy and radical economic policies “for the many not the few”, says Steve Melia.

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