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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 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 (5 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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Have British weapons been used in the ongoing atrocities against Palestine?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 May, 2021

Campaign Against Arms Trade calls for an investigation into possible abuses.

Urgent action is needed to save Britain’s social care system

Janet Sillett
17 May, 2021

Social care needs radical thinking, a large injection of government funding, and urgent reform.

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Exclusive: Kill the Bill activists to launch fresh wave of protests

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 May, 2021

As the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder approaches, action accelerates to stamp out systemic racism.

Alyn Smith: A bright future for the next generation? Not under this Tory government

Alyn Smith
17 May, 2021

Behind the rhetoric, real-world consequences of Tory policies are destroying the hopes and ambitions of the next generation, writes Alyn Smith, MP.

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Greens reject claims of ‘coalition with Tories’ on London Assembly

Basit Mahmood
14 May, 2021

The Greens instead accused the Labour party of trying to block them from chairing the Transport Committee.

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Plans to introduce photo ID for voting ‘are about voter suppression’, says Labour MP

Basit Mahmood
14 May, 2021

Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP also says that the move will disproportionately affect those from underrepresented and marginalised communities.

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Why levelling-up is just another Tory hoax

Prem Sikka
14 May, 2021

‘Levelling-up’ has been used as a slogan by Boris Johnson’s government to implement its far-right policies.

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There’s a clear route to Labour election success: a Green New Deal

Michael Anderson
14 May, 2021

‘Labour must propose radical solutions to the climate crisis, and history shows us that relying on market driven solutions is a dead end’.

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Unite bosses should be compromising with workers not criticising them

Jack Grant
14 May, 2021

‘With three left candidates vying for the top seat, unity within Unite is becoming fractured’.

Exclusive: Brits support decriminalisation of marijuana, saying it’s less harmful than alcohol

Basit Mahmood Josiah Mortimer
13 May, 2021

Three in ten MPs also support the decriminalisation of marijuana.

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