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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 days 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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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 days ago)

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Precarious workers to stage Halloween protest during Uber’s court appeal

Joana Ramiro
18 September, 2018

At the last of Uber’s employment rights dispute hearing, workers with the IWGB are hoping to finally teach their “bloodsucking bosses” a lesson.

The Lib Dems have just pledged to scrap inheritance tax and introduce a lifelong gift-tax

Joana Ramiro
18 September, 2018

The Lib Dems conference is not just about Brexit it seems – a motion on wealth inequality was passed in a bid to plump the Treasury with an extra £15 billion.

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Right wing papers are the least trusted in the country (even if still the best selling ones too)

Joana Ramiro
18 September, 2018

The Sun tops the list of the least trusted newspapers in Britain. And the Mail Online follows suit in the Published Audience Measurement Company latest survey.

It’s time to take on ‘vapid centrism’: The new Green Party leaders’ priorities

Jonathan Bartley
18 September, 2018

After being elected co-leader of the Greens, Jonathan Bartley reflects on his party’s legacy in leading the fight and how together with Sian Berry he will go even further.

What would an Anti Fascist League in Brexit Britain look like?

Trevor Fisher
17 September, 2018

As calls for a new Anti Fascist League get increasingly popular, Trevor Fisher argues that defeating Brexit is central to beat the far right in Britain.

Charities, think tanks and independent commissions agree: Tory austerity has left Britain destitute

Joana Ramiro
17 September, 2018

Two new studies by the Social Metrics Commission and the New Economics Foundation reveal the extent to which David Cameron and Theresa May have wrecked havoc in Britain’s wallets.

We can’t bend the knee to the far-right, we must get a People’s Vote

Amanda Chetwynd-Cowieson
17 September, 2018

This first of a series, where ahead of Labour Conference, four young members of For our Future’s Sake argue why the People’s Vote is a necessity.

We have a choice: business as usual, or breaking with neoliberalism. Pick a side #10YearsOn

Asad Rehman
15 September, 2018

Ordinary people across the world payed the price for the financial crisis. It cannot be allowed to happen again.

We’ve given the banks almost total control over our day-to-day payments. What if they fail? #10YearsOn

David Clarke
14 September, 2018

The ability to make and receive payments is fundamental to our lives. We can’t and shouldn’t return to a purely cash-based economy, but we can put our money back in public hands.

We need buffer zones outside abortion clinics – the Home Secretary must reconsider

Fiona Twycross
14 September, 2018

For many, many women, having an abortion is the toughest decision they will ever have to make. Imagine the distress and trauma that is added to that when they are confronted by those using intimidation and fear tactics to pressure them to reconsider.

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