This is a list of left-wing publications published regularly in the United Kingdom. It includes newspapers, magazines, journals and websites.
Frequently updated websites
- Black Isle Media (formerly Universal Credit Sufferer) - website run by an independent journalist in Culbokie, Scotland[61]
- Bright Green – website discussing radical, democratic, and green politics, staffed primarily from members of green parties across the UK[62]
- Bywire News – decentralised, democratic, independent news network, hosting The Media Fund partners, including Byline Times[63][64][65] The Canary, Labour Buzz, Not the News, Business Wales, Our.London, and MRC[66]
- Source (formerly CommonSpace) – A political analysis site owned by- but independent of- the Common Weal think tank.
- Conter - cross-party Scottish platform for "anti-capitalist analysis and activism"[67]
- The Canary – pro-Jeremy Corbyn Bristol-based website[68]
- Double Down News[69]
- Europinion — left-wing newspaper featuring analyses and discussions of UK, European, and US politics. [70]
- Evolve Politics – website run by two people in Nottingham and Peterborough[71][68]
- Freedom – from Freedom Press. Also produces Freedom, the longest-running anarchist publication in the English language, as a bi-annual free print journal[72]
- LabourList – an online news site focusing on the Labour Party, their activities and the trade unions.
- Left Foot Forward
- The New Pretender – online review supporting left populism in the British Isles[73]
- Novara Media – left-wing online outlet[74]
- The Skwawkbox – left-wing alternative news blog[75]
- The Prole Star – left-wing alternative news blog[76]
Unknown or irregular frequency
Weekly
- 7 Days (1971–1972) – independent journal.[98]
- Arbeter Fraynd (1885–1914) – London-based Yiddish paper.
- The Bee-Hive – initially from the London Trades Council, then independent (1861–72).
- Bradford Pioneer – associated with the Independent Labour Party.
- The Call (1916–1920) – official organ of the British Socialist Party, replaced by The Communist.[99]
- The Clarion (1891–1931) – independent.
- The Communist (1920–1923) – publication of the Communist Party of Great Britain, replaced by The Workers' Weekly.
- Forward (1906–53) – associated with the Scottish ILP and, later, the Scottish Labour Party.
- Justice (1884–1925) – from the Social Democratic Federation, British Socialist Party and National Socialist Party.
- Labour Elector (1888–1894).
- Labour Herald (1981–1985) – independent.
- Labour Leader (1887–1986) – originally The Miner; independent until acquired by the ILP. New Leader from 1920s; Socialist Leader from '40s to '70s.
- Labour Standard (1881–1885) – from the London Trades Council.
- Labour Weekly – official Labour Party newspaper which was closed in 1988.
- Militant (1964–1997) – from the Militant tendency (later Militant Labour, now the Socialist Party, new paper is The Socialist).
- The Newsletter – associated with the Socialist Labour League.
- News on Sunday (1987) – independent.
- Northern Star (1837–1852).
- The Poor Man's Guardian (1831–1835).
- Red Weekly (1973–1977) – from the International Marxist Group
- Reynolds News (1850–1967) – independent until acquired by the Co-operative Press.
- Socialist Commentary (1934–1978) – from the Socialist Vanguard Group.
- Socialist Organiser – from the Socialist Organiser Alliance.
- Socialist Press – from the Workers' Socialist League.
- Sunday Worker (1924–1929) - from the National Left-Wing Movement, a CPGB front organisation.
- The Week (1933–1941).
- The Week (1964–1968) – publication of the International Group (later the International Marxist Group).[100]
- The West Indian Gazette (1959–1968).
- The Worker (1915–1916) – journal of the Clyde Workers' Committee.[101]
- Workers' Dreadnought (1917–1924) – originally independent, later from the Communist Party (British Section of the Third International).
- Workers' Life (1927–1930) – from the Communist Party of Great Britain.
- Workers News Bulletin – from the Workers League, a successor group to the Leninist League.[102]
- Workers' Weekly (1923–1927) – from the Communist Party of Great Britain.
- Workers Weekly – from the Revolutionary Socialist Party.
- World News – from the Communist Party of Great Britain.
- Young Socialist – from the Workers Revolutionary Party.
Bi-annually
- Gay Left (1975–1980) – journal by the group of the same name.
Unknown or irregular frequency
- Africa in Struggle (1975–1978) – from the International Marxist Group.
- Agitator – forerunner of Solidarity, from the Solidarity group.
- Alert Scotland – from the Communist Party of Scotland.
- Another Angry Voice – website run by an English tutor in Yorkshire[68]
- A Pinch of Salt (1985–1989/2007–2011) – from Christians Interested in Anarchism.[116]
- Big Flame – from Big Flame.
- The Black Dwarf (1968–1972) – associated with the International Marxist Group.[117]
- Bread & Roses – from the Industrial Workers of the World.
- The British Revolutionary Socialist – from the Revolutionary Socialist Party.
- Bulletin of Marxist Studies/Marxist Studies Newsletter (1968–1970) – from the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency, an IMG/USFI splinter group.
- Bulletin for Socialist Self-Management (1972–1973) – continuation of Bulletin of Marxist Studies/Marxist Studies Newsletter.
- Class Against Class – journal from the Marxist-Leninist Organisation of Britain.
- Class War (1983–2011) – from the eponymous group.
- Combat – journal from the Communist League of Great Britain.
- The Commonweal (1885–1893) – from the Socialist League.
- Common Wealth Review (1944–1949) - journal of the Common Wealth Party.
- The Commune – from the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation.
- The Communist (1919) – from the Communist League.
- The Communist – from the British and Irish Communist Organisation.
- Communist – theoretical journal of the Straight Left group.
- Compass – journal from the Communist League of Great Britain.
- Confrontation (1986–1990) – journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
- Counter Information – Independent news sheet from 1980 to 2004 about grassroots struggles in the UK and worldwide.
- Direct Action – from the Anarchist Federation of Britain, precursor to the Syndicalist Workers' Federation.[118]
- Dundee and Tayside Vanguard – from the Workers Party of Scotland.
- The Fargate Speaker – from the Sheffield group of the Anarchist Federation.
- Fight (1936–1938) – from the Marxist Group and later Revolutionary Socialist League.[119]
- Fightback – from Communist Forum.
- Finsbury Communist – from the Finsbury Communist Association.[120]
- Fourth International (1958–1962) – from the Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1957)
- Fourth International (1964–1982) – from the (UK-based) International Committee of the Fourth International.
- Fourth Internationalist – from the Socialist Labour Group.
- Dos Fraye Vort (1898) – Yiddish anarchist newspaper.
- Freiheit (1879–1910) – anarchist journal.
- Frontline – journal of Red Flag tendency within Scottish Socialist Party.
- Green Anarchist – independent journal.
- Hammer or Anvil – from the Action Centre for Marxist-Leninist Unity.
- Heatwave (magazine) (1966) – libertarian socialist journal.
- Heavy Stuff – theoretical journal of the Class War Federation.
- Here and Now – associated with the Solidarity group.
- The Industrialist – from the Industrialist League.[118]
- The Industrial Unionist – from the British Advocates of Industrial Unionism.
- International Bulletin/The Bulletin (1961–1963) – from the International Group (pre-IMG).[100]
- International Communist Review – from the Communist Workers Organisation.
- International Review – from the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain.
- International Socialist (1952–1954) – from the (pre-Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1957)) International Socialist Group.
- Labour Review (1952–1963) – The Club/Socialist Labour League.
- Left (1942–1947) – journal of the Common Wealth Party.
- The Libertarian (1950–1988) – periodical of the Common Wealth Party.
- Libertarian Communism (1972–1976) – unofficial journal associated with the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
- Libertarian Communist (1977–1980) – from the Libertarian Communist Group.[107]
- The Line of March – from Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist).
- The Marxist – independent journal.[121]
- The Marxist – from the Marxist Party.
- Marxist Bulletin (1970s) – from the Bulletin Group.
- Marxist Bulletin (1997–2000) – from British-based supporters of the International Bolshevik Tendency.[122]
- Marxist-Leninist Journal – from the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist).
- Marxist Worker – from the eponymous group.
- The Militant (late 1940s) – entrist paper from the Revolutionary Socialist League/Revolutionary Communist Party.
- Militant Miner – from the Left Fraction.
- New Age – from the Communist Workers Movement, a split from the CPB(ML).
- New Communist Review – theoretical journal of the New Communist Party.
- The New Man – from the Marxian League.[123]
- New Interventions – independent Trotskyist journal.
- The Newsletter (1956–1969) – from The Club/Socialist Labour League.
- October – journal from the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain.[124]
- Open Polemic – from the Association of Communists for Revolutionary Unity.[118]
- Permanent Revolution – journal from the 1970s Workers' Fight group.
- Permanent Revolution – journal from Workers' Power.
- Permanent Revolution – from the eponymous group.[125]
- Plebs – from the Plebs' League.
- Politics – from the Left Fraction.
- Der Poylisher Yidl (1884–1885) - Yiddish periodical newspaper.
- Proletarian – from the Communist Organisation in the British Isles.
- Proletarian – from the 1980s group of the same name.
- The Proletariat – from the Revolutionary Socialist Party.
- Rally (1940s–1960s) – entrist paper in the Labour Party Young Socialists from the group which became the Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1957).
- The Reasoner (1956) – forerunner of New Reasoner.
- Rebel – entrist paper in the Labour Party Young Socialists from the International Socialists.
- Red Clydesider – from the Workers Party of Scotland.
- Red Action (1981–2001) – from the eponymous group.
- Red Flag (1933–1937) – from the Communist League/Marxist League.
- Red Flag (1963–2000) – from the Revolutionary Workers' Party.
- Red Front – from the Marxist-Leninist Organisation of Britain.
- Red Mole (1970–1973) – from the International Marxist Group.
- Red Rag (1972–1980) - socialist feminist magazine associated with the CPGB.
- The Red Republican (1850).
- Red Star (2004–2005) – from the Red Party.
- Red Vanguard – from the Marxist-Leninist Organisation of Britain.
- Republican Worker – from the Revolutionary Democratic Group.
- Revolution (1976–1980) – journal from the Communist Federation of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)[126]/Revolutionary Communist League of Britain.[127]
- Revolutionary Communist Papers (1977–1981) – journal of the Revolutionary Communist Tendency.
- Revolutionary Fighter – from the Revolutionary Internationalist League, a split from Workers' Internationalist League.
- Revolutionary History – independent Trotskyist journal.
- Revolutionary Socialism – from Big Flame.[118]
- Scientific Socialism – from the Association for the Realisation of Marxism.[118]
- Scottish Marxist – Scottish journal of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
- Scottish Marxist Voice – from the Communist Party of Scotland.
- Scottish Vanguard – from the Workers Party of Scotland.[128]
- Searchlight – entrist paper from the Workers' International League.
- The Sheffield Anarchist (1891; 1975–1987).[129]
- Slaney Street – independent, Birmingham based free newspaper.[130]
- Socialism from Below – from the Anarchist Workers' Group, a split from the Direct Action Movement.[118]
- The Socialist – from the Socialist Union.
- Socialist Action (1976–1982) – from the League for Socialist Action.
- Socialist Challenge (1977–1983) – from the International Marxist Group.
- Socialist Current (1956–) – eponymous journal of a group which split from the Revolutionary Socialist League.[131]
- Socialist Democracy – from the Socialist Democracy Group.
- Socialist Fight (1940s) – from the Socialist Workers Group, a split from the Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1938).
- Socialist Fight (1957–1964) – from the pre-Militant Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1957).
- Socialist Future Review (1985–2005) – from the Movement for a Socialist Future.
- Socialist Lawyer – from the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers.
- Socialist Newsletter – from the Socialist Labour Group.
- Socialist Outlook (1948–1954) – from The Club.
- Socialist Review (1950–1962) – from the Socialist Review Group.
- Socialist Studies – from the United Socialist Party.
- Socialist Viewpoint – from the Socialist Group.
- Socialist Woman (1969–1978) – from the International Marxist Group.[132]
- Solidarity – from the Workers' Revolutionary League.
- Solidarity – from the Solidarity group.
- South London Workers' Bulletin – from the Workers' Institute of Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought.
- Spain and the World (1936–1939).
- The Spectre (1975–1977) – from the Revolutionary Marxist Current, a split from the International Marxist Group.[133]
- The Spur – associated with the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation.
- Struggle – from the Communist Federation of Britain (Marxist-Leninist).
- Student Socialist – from Socialist Students.
- Trotskyism Today – journal of the Workers' Socialist League.
- Trotskyist Internationalist – from Workers' Power.
- Unite and Fight – from the Socialist Labour Group.
- Universities and Left Review (1957–1959) – forerunner of New Left Review.[134]
- The Vanguard – paper associated with John Maclean.[135]
- Vanguard – from the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity.
- Vietnam Solidarity Committee Bulletin (1966–1970) – from the eponymous group linked to the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.
- Voice of Labour – from the Left Fraction.
- Voice of the People – from the Communist Workers League of Britain (Marxist–Leninist).
- What Next – independent Trotskyist journal.[136]
- The Whinger – independent journal.
- Wildcat – associated with the Solidarity group.
- Womens Voice – from the IS/Socialist Workers Party.
- The Word – from the United Socialist Movement.[137]
- Workers' Fight – from the 1930s Revolutionary Socialist League.
- Workers' Fight – from the 1960s/1970s Workers' Fight group.
- Workers' International News (1938–1949) – from the Workers' International League/Revolutionary Communist Party.[138]
- Workers' International News – from the Workers' Internationalist League.
- Workers' News – from the Workers League.
- Workers' News (1987–1997) – from the Workers' International League.
- Workers' Newsletter – from the Working People's Party of England.
- Workers Press (1985–1996) – initially a rival to News Line, from the group that became Movement for Socialism.
- Workers' Review – from the Socialist Workers League, a successor to the Leninist League.
- Workers' Unity – from the Communist Unity Association (Marxist-Leninist).
- Workers' Voice – from the Communist Workers Organisation.
- World Politics (1965–1967) – from the International Marxist Group.
- Young Guard (1962–1966) – entrist paper in the Labour Party Young Socialists.
- Youth for Socialism – entrist paper in the Labour Party Young Socialists from the pre-Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1957).