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IT IS not anti-war campaigners who are piling up the evidence that Tony Blair lied to the world, to people in Britain, to parliament and even to his own cabinet.

WITH ITS slick cover design, Mark Curtis's book looks like a blockbuster. It deserves to be one. The story of the terrorist actions carried out by the British state is scarier and more gripping than any thriller.

ANYONE WHO believes that the government's assault on asylum seekers leaves the most desperate "legitimate" refugees untouched, should look at Abas Amini's face. The Home Office is appealing against a decision to give him asylum in Britain. He is so desperate he has sewn up his own eyes, mouth and ears in protest.

THE RIGHT wing tabloids and the Daily Telegraph have whipped up a frenzy over two issues over greater European integration. The furore is over the referendum over the European constitution, and whether Britain should adopt the euro currency.

A FIGHT between low paid journalists and a multinational corporation has reached a decisive stage this week. The Newsquest corporation is one of Britain's biggest owners of local newspapers, and is a subsidiary of the US multinational Gannett.

ANTI-WAR movement teach-ins, discussion meetings and debates continue to attract large and enthusiastic audiences across Britain. Those which took place last week included:

HUNDREDS OF Inland Revenue workers in the PCS civil servants' union unofficially walked out of their offices for 15 minutes on Friday of last week. The workers were protesting against the crisis caused by the government's new tax credit programme which left Britain's poorest families waiting for vital money.

HUNDREDS OF workers for Hanson Bricks, Britain's biggest brick producer, are set to take strike action in a dispute over pay. The workers, in the TGWU, Amicus and GMB unions, have voted overwhelmingly to strike. The first strike is set for Monday 9 June. The second day of action is set for Monday 16 June.

SOME OF the lowest paid workers in Britain are rebelling. Nursery nurses in Scotland and health workers in North Lincolnshire and east London were set to strike this week for a living wage. They are sick of doing important, caring jobs for pitiful wages that won't pay the bills. They want to be treated with respect, not taken for granted as low paid skivvies.

THE THREAT posed by 16 British National Party(BNP) councillors in Britain has united anti-Nazi campaigners in a call for demonstrations on Saturday 28 June. Protests are planned in Burnley, Broxbourne, Halifax and Tipton - places where the BNP have conned people into voting for them.

BECHTEL, THE biggest vulture to have got its claws into Iraq since the invasion, planned to be in London on Friday this week. It wanted to hand out a few scraps to British firms linked to government projects here. Bechtel is a byword for ruthless privatisation. The US government has given it the principal contract, worth $680 million, to "reconstruct" Iraq.

SOME OF the poorest families in Britain are still waiting for vital tax credits which make all the difference in enabling them to get by. Many have now been waiting over six weeks for money they were supposed to receive on 6 April. Other benefits like free school meals cannot be claimed until tax credits are processed.