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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

“This is an emergency”: Left-wing group to launch protests against Tory Brexit plans

Josiah Mortimer
29 September, 2020

Another Europe is Possible has launched ‘Fight for The Future’ ahead of an extreme Brexit later this year.

BBC bosses tear apart Tory claims of left-wing bias in fiery Commons hearing

Josiah Mortimer
29 September, 2020

“You want to ignore the evidence…you rely on individual anecdotes,” the BBC chairman told Tory MP Philip Davies.

The university Covid chaos was inevitable. So why was it allowed to happen?

Andrew Smith
29 September, 2020

This is about to become a UK-wide crisis, writes Andrew Smith.

Five highlights of Ed Davey’s Lib Dem conference speech

Sophia Dourou
28 September, 2020

The Lib Dem leader promised to become the voice for the nine million carers in the country

How Keir Starmer’s Labour will be tough on Russia and the ‘laundromat’

Catherine West
28 September, 2020

Labour’s new leadership demands the government take a tougher stance on Russia.

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The Tory trade bill is bad for people and planet — we need to fight for sustainable trade

Natalie Bennett
28 September, 2020

The major social and environmental costs of trade have been ignored for too long and a new approach is needed

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How unions are fighting to defend print media

Tony Burke
28 September, 2020

The Covid-19 crisis has accelerated the massive change the printed media was already facing and with it a massive reduction of needed advertising streams.

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Labour MP: The pandemic reinforces the case for a Universal Basic Income

Beth Winter
28 September, 2020

Beth Winter MP is making the case for a Universal Basic Income and pushing for Labour to get behind that policy

Plaid Cymru: “No immediate prospect” of independent Wales re-joining the EU

Joe Lo
25 September, 2020

Plaid are pro-EU but Wales voted to leave in 2016.

Many coronavirus sufferers stopped self-isolating after the Cummings scandal

Joe Lo
25 September, 2020

Did people stop following the rules because of Cummings?

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