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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 weeks 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 (2 weeks 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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Prof Prem Sikka: Reform company law to protect workers’ pensions

Prem Sikka
4 December, 2020

The Arcadia collapse is just the latest example of why we must change the law to protect pension rights.

Momentum needs to get serious about democracy – and not just within the Labour Party

Alan Story
4 December, 2020

Labour’s left is waking up to the need for a democratic overhaul in this country. Momentum should get on board.

Pressure mounts for Test and Trace to go local as national system misses 3 in 10 contacts

Lucy Skoulding
3 December, 2020

‘It is absolutely vital to have a functioning test, track and trace system if we’re to get out of this pandemic safely’

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Government U-turn on in-person teaching as universities suffer 50,000 cases of Covid

Lucy Skoulding
3 December, 2020

Online learning will be the default until at least February thanks to UCU campaigning

8 MPs who won awards for tackling discrimination, health inequality and poverty

Lucy Skoulding
3 December, 2020

All of these MPs have done significant work to support disadvantaged communities this year

Radical roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – 2nd December 2020

Josiah Mortimer
2 December, 2020

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

Right-wingers are swallowing their words when it comes to green energy standards

Natalie Bennett
2 December, 2020

Are they having an LED lightbulb moment?

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Opposition parties demand vote on new Covid restrictions in Wales

Josiah Mortimer
2 December, 2020

Plaid Cymru and the Tories are calling for Welsh ministers to publish evidence behind new pub rules – and to give Senedd members a vote.

In the frame: The left is learning how to shift the political narrative

Josiah Mortimer
1 December, 2020

How progressives are wising up to the power of ‘framing’.

Revealed: How slashing environmental protections has actually COST businesses money

Josiah Mortimer
1 December, 2020

“Across a wide range of sectors, we are now seeing the accumulated impact of years of deregulation.”

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