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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (1 week 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 (1 week 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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Scottish Greens

Exclusive: Scottish Greens co-leader sets out party’s hopes for Holyrood elections

Sophia Dourou
18 December, 2020

“We have the chance to do something new, and different, and exciting, and not be stuck, hampered by these unchangeable institutions.”

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How the Tories have allowed millions to plunge into destitution

Prem Sikka
18 December, 2020

Poverty and destitution are not the outcome of some invisible hand of fate, but the that of government policies and unresponsive economic and political institutions.

Press

Revealed: A handful of billionaires control a staggering share of UK media

Sophia Dourou
18 December, 2020

The data shows that the rise in digital media is only marginally counterbalancing the fact that the overwhelming majority of UK media is controlled by a handful of owners.

The UK opencast coal industry just received a final nail in the coffin in a landmark vote

Tommy Greene
17 December, 2020

Organisations have mounted an energetic campaign against the mining proposals, in a bid to hold the local authority to its word on climate breakdown.

unconscious bias

The Government just showed how little they care about tackling racism in the civil service

Lucille Thirlby
17 December, 2020

Scrapping unconscious bias training highlight’s the government’s indifference to creating a diverse and inclusive civil service

Five times the Tories weaponised fake news

Sophia Dourou
17 December, 2020

As criticism mounts of a local Conservative group wanting to ‘weaponise fake news’ we look at examples of the Tories doing just that

Tory MP slammed for ‘mixed messaging’ after attending a 27 guest ‘Christmas party’

Sophia Dourou
17 December, 2020

The MP attended the event after criticising the government’s five-day Christmas rules relaxation

How the UK is blocking global access to Covid vaccines – and what needs to happen next

Baroness Shas Sheehan
16 December, 2020

To ensure global access to the new Covid-19 vaccines, we need to challenge Big Pharma’s monopolies, argues Lib Dem spokesperson Baroness Sheehan.

Radical roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – 16th December 2020

Josiah Mortimer
16 December, 2020

Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week…

Revealed: Tories failed to return illegal donations on time, watchdog finds

Josiah Mortimer
16 December, 2020

Momentum also rapped for taking donations from individuals not on the electoral roll.

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