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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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The World Transformed brings its festival online.

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Joe Lo
20 August, 2020

Around 650 jobs are at risk in Guildford, Falkirk and Scarborough.

Tony Burke: The UK should listen to unions like the Germans do

Tony Burke
20 August, 2020

German unions are proposing a four-day week

Teens fear mass unemployment will make them a “lost generation”

Joe Lo
20 August, 2020

A think tank has warned three million jobs could go.

Labour cuts Tory poll lead after results fiasco

Joe Lo
20 August, 2020

The gap is now similar to the 2017 election.

Inside a train station

Here’s how much rail fares have risen since the Tories came to power

Josiah Mortimer
19 August, 2020

Amid economic hardship, rail fares are going up yet again – while privatised firms continue to rake it in.

Britain is partly responsible for the refugee ‘crisis’. We have to deal with it

Sam Knights
19 August, 2020

In the next fifty years, the climate crisis will force millions of people to flee their homes. In order to survive, we have to build a more compassionate and resilient society.

Corbyn claims Tories planned a ‘eugenic’ herd immunity strategy to handle coronavirus

Josiah Mortimer
19 August, 2020

The former Labour leader also revealed his regrets (few) and points of pride (many) as Labour leader, in a new interview.

Exclusive: Grenfell campaigners criticise ‘shameful’ decision to make local councillor a Lord

Joe Lo
18 August, 2020

They said it was “akin to rewarding the worst of human behaviour”.

The middle-class media overstates working-class social conservatism

Jatinder Hayre
18 August, 2020

The modern working-class is diverse and less anti-migrant than the media makes out.

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