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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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

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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Latest Posts

Marcus Rashford highlights Labour councils feeding kids over holidays

Joe Lo
23 October, 2020

Without government support, these councils are stepping up.

Accounting Professor Prem Sikka explains why the industry is failing society

Prem Sikka
23 October, 2020

Britain has more accountants per capita than anywhere else in the world.

Revealed: Therese Coffey’s first-class flights to climate summits

Joe Lo
22 October, 2020

Flying first class is worse for the climate and for the taxpayer.

Cleo Lake: We need holistic African reparations to fund planetary repairs

Cleo Lake
22 October, 2020

And we need an all-party commission on truth and reparatory justice.

Unison leadership hopeful: We must keep funding and influencing Labour

Josiah Mortimer
22 October, 2020

The Corbyn-backed candidate says Unison members should get more involved with Labour.

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried

Josiah Mortimer
21 October, 2020

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

This Remembrance Day, we must remember the victims of today’s wars too

Symon Hill
21 October, 2020

It’s time to revive the message “never again”, writes Symon Hill.

gig economy

Ministers taken to court over gig economy workers being denied ‘basic PPE and health protections’

Josiah Mortimer
21 October, 2020

“The government turned a blind eye as gig economy companies cut corners on health and safety,” the IWGB union says.

EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson condemned for ‘completely untrue’ Sadiq Khan slur

Josiah Mortimer
21 October, 2020

How can he get away with this?

Online abuse

Government delays ‘urgent’ bill aimed at tackling hate and abuse online

Josiah Mortimer
21 October, 2020

“This Government is behaving like a cowboy builder who delays the work again and again, and leaves the job only half done.”

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