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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 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 (2 days ago)

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A Women’s Strike? Elementary, my dear patriarchy!

Camille Barbagallo
8 March, 2018

The women’s strike is a devastatingly simple concept. And a vital one, too.

Let’s admit it: the NHS crisis isn’t just about funding

Jo Simmons
7 March, 2018

While it might help, we aren’t going to solve all our health service’s problems just by pumping more money in.

The ‘gig’ economy is here to stay – and the left need to step up to the challenge

Josiah Mortimer
7 March, 2018

Former Left Foot Forward Editor James Bloodworth has exposed the grim realities of work in the UK. Nostalgia for the past is not the solution.

Tory MP roasted on Radio 4 over ‘rolling out the red carpet’ for Saudi prince

Josiah Mortimer
7 March, 2018

Crispin Blunt’s defence of Saudis’ actions in Yemen is almost too painful to watch.

Lansman’s General Secretary run reflects the top-down approach taking over Momentum

Anonymous
7 March, 2018

Amid concerns over Momentum’s democratic deficit, Jon Lansman’s run for Labour’s General Secretary role has caused unrest within his own movement.

Here’s everything wrong with May’s big speech on the housing crisis

Kevin Gulliver
6 March, 2018

From growing homelessness and social housing waiting lists to dropping house building, the Tories have utterly failed to address the housing crisis.

Biggest student protest in 5 years: hundreds occupy universities over staff pension strike

6 March, 2018

“Our staff deserve dignity and fair treatment, not poverty in retirement”, say student protestors.

Over half of those in poverty are now from working households – work isn’t paying in Tory Britain

Oscar Webb
6 March, 2018

Stagnating wages and Tory austerity have forced millions of working families into poverty.

Anna Turley MP: the time’s come for a progressive national ID card

Anna Turley
6 March, 2018

Jeremy Corbyn called for a ‘digital citizen passport’ in his technology-embracing speech in August 2016. What is that, if not an ID card?

Jenny Jones: the government may be about to lose this debate on animal sentience in the Lords

Jenny Jones
5 March, 2018

I am putting forward the same amendment in the Lords as Caroline Lucas MP did in the Commons, that would officially say the UK recognises animal sentience.

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