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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

Lords lowdown: A day of resounding defeats for the Government over the Immigration Bill

Natalie Bennett
6 October, 2020

The Hostile Environment rightly took a battering in the House of Lords on Monday. Natalie Bennett explores what happened.

Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP: Our police and security services should exist to uphold the rule of the law, not break it

Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
6 October, 2020

The Labour backbencher on why she voted against the government’s damaging new intelligence bill on Monday. Pic: MI6 HQ.

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The Environment Bill has vanished

Ruth Chambers
5 October, 2020

This crucial legislation can’t be allowed to fall off the agenda, writes Ruth Chambers.

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Piers Morgan’s public shaming of his Uber Eats courier was ignorant and dangerous

Alex Marshall
5 October, 2020

Delays to your food order are the fault of the company – not the worker.

“We can abolish destitution”: Highlights from the Green Party leaders’ conference address

LFF Reporter
5 October, 2020

What we heard from newly re-elected co-leaders Siân Berry and Jonathan Bartley at the party’s virtual conference.

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General Secretary candidate Christina McAnea: New direction for Unison as biggest union marks ‘end of an era’

Josiah Mortimer
5 October, 2020

The front-runner on national industrial action, Unison’s relationship with Labour, and far-left ‘gesture politics’.

Let trade unions in, Welsh Government tells employers receiving public cash

Josiah Mortimer
3 October, 2020

13,000 business owners using the Economic Resilience Fund are being urged to work with unions. Imagine if the UK government did the same?

Christina McAnea

Unison’s continuity candidate? That’s patronising and misogynistic, says Christina McAnea

Josiah Mortimer
2 October, 2020

No-one says that about Unison’s male deputies, she said.

We can’t put the responsibility and costs of fire safety all on leaseholders

Abena Oppong-Asare
2 October, 2020

The government needs to step up and cover the costs of making our homes safe.

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that got buried

Joe Lo
2 October, 2020

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

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