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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 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 (4 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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The Greens are rising up the polls following local election success – which means more scrutiny of their leadership.

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Rebecca Tinsley
7 June, 2021

The UK is making trade deals with countries condemned by human rights watchdogs and poor consumer standards.

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Alexandra Warren
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The news channel has been hit with criticism over impartiality and calls for advertising boycotts.

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“Nobody is safe until everyone is safe”: 100,000 sign petition to waive vaccine patents

Alexandra Warren
7 June, 2021

The UK is one of the last countries blocking the Covid vaccine intellectual property rights waiver.

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Scientists urge government to delay June 21 reopening because of now ‘dominant Indian variant’

Basit Mahmood
4 June, 2021

‘Right now, we do not have control over this variant and its growth in England and apparently not in Scotland either’

Access to education in prisons should be prioritised as restrictions ease, charity says

Basit Mahmood
4 June, 2021

Nearly 50% of people in prison have a literacy level at or below what’s needed for successful employment.

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The London Capital and Finance scandal is another example of privatising profits and socialising losses

Prem Sikka
4 June, 2021

‘The state continues to douse fires, but there is no regulatory reform and no independent inquiry into the operations of the finance industry.’

From Mary Ann Nichols to Sarah Everard: Women on Britain’s unsafe streets

Allan Dorans
4 June, 2021

‘If we truly want to increase the safety for women on the streets, we must redirect our attention away from what women could do, to why men are making these streets unsafe for women.’

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‘Labour must not dismiss its young voters, it should offer them hope’

Maheen Behrana
3 June, 2021

‘We need someone to offer us hope – hope of affordable housing, of employment rights, of action on inequality.’

Charities warn of a ‘wave of homelessness in coming months’ after eviction ban ends

Basit Mahmood
3 June, 2021

400,000 renting households have either been served an eviction notice or have been told they will be evicted, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

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