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• Stronger measures needed to stop second wave - CounterBlast

  

  Rising case numbers show that the government is failing to act decisively on the pandemic, argues Alex Snowdon

• Urgent action needed to stop resurgent virus - CounterBlast

  

  With an alarming rise in the infection rate, radical measures are required to combat coronavirus, argues Alex Snowdon

• Johnson’s latest pandemic plan is more moonshine than moonshot - CounterBlast

  

  The Prime Minister who bungled the first wave of coronavirus cannot be trusted to tackle the second, suggests Sean Ledwith

• The ongoing Covid19 testing fiasco - Counterblast

  

  Many months of Tory government failures on testing and tracing are doing serious damage, writes Alex Snowdon 

• Johnson is floundering in a sea of incompetence - CounterBlast

  

  As parliament returns, no one should believe Johnson’s promises of safety at school or work, argues Sean Ledwith

• This town is a ghost town: government pushes re-openings amidst empty city centres - CounterBlast

  

  Tory attempts to square the circle of profits and public safety are becoming increasingly desperate, argues Lucy Nichols

• Another day, another U-turn: Boris Johnson is vulnerable - CounterBlast

  

  Pressure from below has forced the Johnson government into crucial retreats on exam grades and face coverings, writes Sean Ledwith

• Refugees are not the enemy, the Government is - CounterBlast

  

  The Tory government are once again scapegoating vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers to cover up for their own failings, argues Lucy Nichols

• ‘Be sensible’ says Boris Johnson as he recklessly ends the lockdown - CounterBlast

  

  While new Covid infections and deaths continue, it is disgraceful that the Tories are patronisingly telling us to be sensible, says Penny Hicks

• Sacking Long-Bailey accelerates Labour’s drive to the right - CounterBlast

  

  The sacking of the shadow cabinet’s only prominent socialist is a milestone in Labour’s move to the right, argues Alex Snowdon 

• Sacking Long-Bailey is a disgrace: it's proof Starmer is leading a witch-hunt against the left - CounterBlast 25 June

  

  There can no longer be any doubt, Starmer is leading a witch-hunt against the left in Labour at a time when the Tories are in maximum disarray, writes Chris Nineham

• Black people protesting racism are not thugs - CounterBlast 8 June

  

  Johnson’s attempt to demonise protesters in Bristol reveals his true colours, argues Lucy Nichols

• Cuts to care worker pay are disgraceful - Counterblast 7 June

  

  The same care workers the Tories have been clapping are now having their pay cut in the middle of a pandemic, says Penny Hicks

• 40,000 deaths but Johnson pushes us back to work - CounterBlast 5 June

  

  The awful milestone of 40,000 officially recorded deaths shows why the government is reckless in lifting the lockdown, writes Alex Snowdon 

• This crisis has exposed the Tory class for what they're really like - CounterBlast 21 May

  

  Is there a day that goes by that you don't just groan at something stupid the Tories have done again?

• The government keeps moving their own goalposts - CounterBlast 1 May

  

  As the government fails its own tests and scrambles to ‘get the economy going again’, we must demand that people are put before profit, writes Cameron Panting

• Workers take a minute's silence as defiance grows - CounterBlast 28 April

  

  International Workers' Memorial Day actions are one more expression of growing workplace anger and popular solidarity with working people, writes Chris Nineham

• A minute's silence that will speak volumes - CounterBlast 26 April

  

  On International Workers' Memorial Day, we will remember the avoidable deaths of thousands caused by government incompetence, writes Chris Nineham

• The Tories are the real criminals - CounterBlast 25 April

  

  The government is doing everything it can to deflect from its own failures and blame anyone else, writes Lucy Nichols

• The Tories' complete disengagement from what is needed - CounterBlast 24 April

  

  The Tories couldn't even keep their own website for testing running for more then a couple of hours, how are they going to deliver 100,000 tests a day by next week?

• Covid-19 testing: too little, too late - CounterBlast 23 April

  

  Matt Hancock's trumpeting of new testing and tracing plans follows massive political failure on this critical issue, writes Alex Snowdon

• How long can the government distort facts - CounterBlast 22 April

  

  While the government continues to distort facts, labour movement outside parliament has started to bear fruits inside, says David McAllister

• Tories fail to meet already inadequate standards - CounterBlast 21 April

  

  The Tories have brought back their election spin team to cover up their hideous failings in this crisis, reports Shabbir Lakha

• Tory thieves are falling out over the corona crisis: Counterblast 20 April

  

  Sean Ledwith considers the tensions unfolding at the head of Government.

• The government's callousness is clear for all to see - CounterBlast 19 April

  

  Boris Johnson's government has blood on its hands, says Tom Griffiths

• PPE: Tories are still failing our frontline workers - CounterBlast 18 April

  

  The government is failing to deliver PPE while trade unions consider strike action to save lives, writes Lucy Nichols

• Hang your head in shame, Hancock - CounterBlast 17 April

  

  The NHS is not a charity, the Tories shouldn't be boasting about people crowdfunding for it, says Penny Hicks

• Sir Keir Starmer’s deadly crusade: supporting big business and undermining unions - CounterBlast 15 April

  

  Keir Starmer's "forensic" opposition amounts to siding with the government against unions and public health it seems, writes Katherine Connelly

• The coronavirus care home crisis: this is what herd immunity looks like - CounterBlast April 14

  

  The government's attitude to the elderly in care homes is unconscionable, argues Shabbir Lakha

• Inadequate PPE is a national scandal - CounterBlast 10 April

  

  As the death toll rises, the government comes under massive pressure to deliver PPE, reports Alex Snowdon 

• It's always us and them - CounterBlast 9 April

  

  The tide is turning, with the public and even the press seeing through the Tory failings over Coronavirus, says Chrissy Brand

• Centrism’s pyrrhic victory - CounterBlast 8 April

  

  Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign, but the conditions that gave rise to his popularity haven't gone away, argues Katherine Connelly

• Evidence of the Government's neglect is mounting - CounterBlast 7 April

  

  The death toll soars in Britain through neglect and incompetence as the US spitefully blocks aid to countries all over the world, reports Shabbir Lakha

• We're not all in it together, your majesty - CounterBlast 5 April

  

  The British state has rolled out its biggest weapon at this time of crisis in a clear ideological intervention, argues David McAllister

• A Knight’s leadership heralds a return for the Labour right – CounterBlast 4 April

  

  This grave result is at loggerheads with the dictates of our present reality, observes Alex Snowdon

• It’s not business as usual, Secretary - CounterBriefing 1 April

  

  Thanking business at this time is grossly insensitive and irresponsible, argues Katherine Connelly

• The deadly Tory game of catch-up - CounterBriefing 31 March

  

  The government are full of praise for citizens and health staff but their actions show them up, argues Shabbir Lakha

• Staff and workers still remain exposed - CounterBriefing 30 March

  

  The attempt to look competent by providing regular updates the government is just trying to hide its inadequacies, says David McAllister

• Crisis management Tory style - CounterBriefing 29 March

  

  Another day and another suit delivering the same excuses as the fear and anxiety mounts for the rest of us, writes Chrissy Brand

• The government is prioritising protecting profits - CounterBriefing 28 March

  

  The government should be reorienting production to the urgent needs during this crisis, but instead they’re interested in saving profits, argues Penny Hicks

• The elephant locked in the room - CounterBriefing 27 March

  

  From the inevitable effects of austerity to the prime minister falling ill, the Tories are going through a rough patch of exposing their own failings, writes Lucy Nichols

• Sunak steps up to sell the self-employed short - CounterBriefing 26 March

  

  Rishi Sunak replaced an increasingly haggard Boris Johnson to deliver a programme of woefully inadequate support for the millions of self-employed, reports Morgan Daniels

• Protect the NHS? Call their bluff and we can win – CounterBriefing 25 March

  

  Don’t underestimate the power of popular pressure at this moment, argues Katherine Connelly

• As the coronavirus death toll rises, so does the government’s ineptitude - CounterBriefing 24 March

  

  Despite the confident front, Boris's lockdown address is full of holes and the measures taken are inadequate and behind time, argues Shabbir Lakha

• Boris Johnson's lacklustre lockdown skips key measures - CounterBriefing 23 March

  

  Boris Johnson's lockdown is weeks late, only after public pressure, and ignores the central questions around testing and necessary support for millions, argues David McAllister

• Message to the government: your friends, the super-rich, are the hoarders - CounterBriefing 21 March

  

  The government is trying to deflect blame from its failings by blaming ordinary people for the shortages, argues Katherine Connelly

• No more gambles, put people first - CounterBriefing 20 March

  

  Our pressure on the government is working and we must push harder, argues Shabbir Lakha

• Criminal negligence while the virus lets rip - CounterBriefing 19 March

  

  In the second CounterBriefing, Chris Nineham looks at the verbal gymnastics of the government to cover its own back after its policy has been declared utterly impractical

• Protest shut the schools, now demand mass testing - CounterBriefing 18 March

  

  In the first CounterBriefing, Katherine Connelly responds to the government's u-turn on school closures after pressure from below