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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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 (1 week ago)

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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Josiah Mortimer
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Kevin Gulliver
21 September, 2018

Technocratic tinkering won’t solve the housing crisis.

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Josiah Mortimer
21 September, 2018

Calls are growing for Labour to look beyond its own structures and work out how to democratise the country as a whole.

If Jeff Bezos is serious about social responsibility, he’ll make Amazon cough up

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While the Amazon boss’s hefty donation is welcome, the company has been a factor in the social problems that Bezos is now trying to address.

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Josiah Mortimer
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“From air pollution to plastics and a four day week – where Greens lead, others follow” – Left Foot Forward speaks to the new Green Party co-leader team.

Why a General Election is no alternative to a People’s Vote on the Brexit deal

Bashir Ibrahim
20 September, 2018

In an interview with LFF this week, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell refused to fully endorse a public vote on the terms of Brexit: “I want a General Election, I don’t want to let these Tories off the hook.” Bashir Ibrahim responds.

Caroline Lucas: Don’t believe the doubters – here’s why a People’s Vote is perfectly possible

Caroline Lucas
20 September, 2018

A new report by one of the architects of Article 50 sets out in clear, practical terms how a People’s Vote is achievable in the time-frame available to us.

EXCLUSIVE: Green Party conference set to vote on IHRA definition of antisemitism

Josiah Mortimer
19 September, 2018

One motion proposes adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism – while another urges the party to reject it entirely.

Forget Blair and Adonis – here’s how the left will win a fresh Brexit vote

Luke Myer
19 September, 2018

Minds aren’t being changed by the same old prominent moderate faces – it’s the energetic, irreverent, cross-spectrum youth campaigns which will win a new vote.

The Tories tried to ban us from conference – but they won’t stop us pushing for a People’s Vote

Eloise Todd
19 September, 2018

Best for Britain have been refused entry to the upcoming Tory conference, but the group will keep making their case, says Chief Executive Eloise Todd.

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