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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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I don’t believe we live in a dictatorship. Can I still be a socialist?

Chris Clarke
27 November, 2018

In this open letter, Chris Clarke argues why the left needs to drop the idea we live in a ‘dictatorship’ lead by ‘Puppet Masters’.

As fascists prepare to march again, Labour activists are organising to oppose the far right

Urte Macikene
27 November, 2018

Tommy Robinson and his ilk are marching in the capital on December 9. The Labour Party must get involved in the resistance – now.

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Why national identity matters for the left

Sunder Katwala
27 November, 2018

National identity still matters to minorities and the majority alike. Labour has to learn how to work with both. Sunder Katwala writes.

Climate change: Why is it easier to imagine the end of humanity than the end of capitalism?

Joana Ramiro
26 November, 2018

Campaigning against climate change must shift its focus from ‘better recycling’ to saving the human race from a toxic economic system.

Theresa May’s deal? It’s a blindfold Brexit

Tony Burke
26 November, 2018

The PM might try and sell her final deal to businesses, workers and MPs, but what she is promising to deliver is a series of vague promises and nothing concrete. Tony Burke writes.

Natalie Bennett: A Green wave is taking over Europe

Natalie Bennett
26 November, 2018

As Green parties rise in the polls, the former Green Party leader argues it’s time electoral reform gave the Greens a change in Britain as well.

Theresa May challenged Jeremy Corbyn to a debate and the internet went berserk

Joana Ramiro
26 November, 2018

The Leader of the Opposition said he’d “relish” a televised head-to-head.

A black Friday for e-giant bosses: How the EU is taking on the likes of Amazon

Jude Kirton-Darling
23 November, 2018

Amazon made £22bn in revenue last year across Europe – and paid just £48.8m in taxes. But now the EU is getting tough on the online giants, writes Jude Kirton-Darling MEP.

Guardian and academics under fire for indirectly branding entire British left ‘conspiracy theorists’

LFF Reporter
23 November, 2018

Nearly half of the public have just been deemed conspiracy theorists – apparently for recognising that Britain is run ‘by the few’…

Bet365 pay bonanza: Why executive pay is not a ‘private’ matter

Prem Sikka
23 November, 2018

No one ‘deserves’ £265m a year. Society should define fair pay, writes accounting expert Prem Sikka.

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