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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, June 2021

Josiah Mortimer
23 June, 2021

Protests, strikes, sell-offs and more: find out what got spiked this week.

Jon Trickett MP wealth tax report

Labour MP: Corbyn’s manifesto commitment to Westminster overhaul was watered down

LFF Reporter
23 June, 2021

And Jon Trickett reveals Labour had cross-party backing for a citizens’ assembly – but Brexit scuppered it.

Why Unite’s leadership election isn’t about Left vs Right

Alex Maguire
23 June, 2021

It’s not as simple as radicals against a moderate, writes Alex Maguire.

Extinction Rebellion hits back at ‘defamatory’ Telegraph article ahead of protests

Josiah Mortimer
22 June, 2021

The direct action group is gearing up for a weekend of action, against the mainstream media’s failure to report fairly on the climate crisis.

‘Authoritarian’: Democracy groups sound alarm over plans to shackle UK elections watchdog

Josiah Mortimer
22 June, 2021

Trust in Britain’s party funding system is at rock bottom. Yet ministers plan to reduce the Electoral Commission’s independence.

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UnionDues: Is social partnership the way forward for workers after the pandemic?

Simon Sapper
22 June, 2021

The ACAS chair speaks to Simon Sapper on bringing workers and bosses together.

Kim Johnson MP: I sit on the committee behind the ‘white working class’ education report. It’s a disgrace

Kim Johnson
22 June, 2021

The Education Select Committee’s report shows the Tories couldn’t care less about the white working class.

Labour challenges Tory MPs to vote against ‘developers’ charter’ as debate on planning heats up

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 June, 2021

Will Tories rebel against Johnson’s contentious planning reforms, which helped swing the Chesham and Amersham by-election in the Lib Dems favour?

Jenny Jones: Archaeologists’ exclusion from Environment Bill must be challenged

Jenny Jones
21 June, 2021

The current prohibition of archaeology from the forthcoming Environment Bill needs to be contested, writes Jenny Jones.

Public view Amazon staff as ‘key workers’ who deserve trade union rights – poll

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 June, 2021

Amazon workers have a long history of agitating for change. The public now support the fight to give Amazon staff trade union rights.

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