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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

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Prof Prem Sikka: Banning anti-capitalist books is social engineering

Prem Sikka
2 October, 2020

Will the Bible also be locked away?

Revealed: Government may intervene in Cumbria coal mine application

Tommy Greene
1 October, 2020

The council is set to approve the mine – but government could over-rule them.

Expert: Liam Fox is only still in WTO leadership race because he’s no threat to others

Joe Lo
1 October, 2020

The Europeans wanted the strongest rivals out of the competition, Bill Reinsch said.

7 unnecessary projects which have been given more taxpayers’ money than the Windrush victims

Joe Lo
1 October, 2020

So far, 168 victims have been given just £1.2m between them.

We locked up innocent people on a ferry before and it was a disaster

Joe Lo
1 October, 2020

The Daily Mail called it “cushy” but guards were worried about suicides and the ship nearly sunk.

Education figures hit out ‘censorship’ of anti-capitalism in new teaching guidance

Josiah Mortimer
30 September, 2020

“It’s laughable to put talking about alternatives to capitalism on par with racism.”

Ancient woodland is being ‘obliterated’ by HS2, activists warn ahead of protests

Josiah Mortimer
30 September, 2020

The protests come as felling restarts on several key sites of ancient woodland. Pic: Calvert Jubilee Nature Reserve.

“F… business”: How the Tories are failing our manufacturing communities in the pandemic

Matt Western
30 September, 2020

The skills of our automotive workers will be key to a green recovery – but the government is letting the sector flounder.

Unpacking ‘progressive patriotism’: What Starmer’s stance means for Labour

Maheen Behrana
30 September, 2020

Patriotism has be more than simply pitching to the right of Jeremy Corbyn, writes Maheen Behrana.

The Tories have thrown away public confidence through top-down government

Karen Buck
29 September, 2020

We need a new approach to Covid and the economic crisis, based on local, community action and mutual aid, writes Karen Buck MP.

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