An armed police officer fired his weapon whilst on duty outside the US embassy in London on Friday.

On October 31, the Guardian published an interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes, 'The greatest intellectual?' (The Guardian, October 31, 2005).

This is an open letter to a few of the people with whom I had discussed the Guardian interview of 31 October, on the basis of the electronic version, which is all that I had seen.

British Airways has estimated that this summer's Gate Gourmet staff dispute cost it between £35m and £45m.

Fire crews vote for strike action West Midlands firefighters have voted in favour of strike action over changes to their shift system.

Internationalist Perspective trace Stalinism back to the October Revolution and Lenin, via an article by Nicholas Werth.

The office Of The Deputy Prime Minister (ODMP) laid down the Decent Homes Standards to improve social housing by 2010, therefore directly benefiting communities. The flip side to this is the destruction of communities in Co-op run social housing.

This somewhat bizarre declaration put out by the "eurogeneration insurgent" participants of the Beyond ESF event of 2004. Beyond ESF was the anti-authoritarian fringe event which took place alongside the European Social Forum in London. We reproduce it as an example of activists using exclusive, meaningless jargon which is incomprehensible to most people.

Over 600 staff at hospitals in Newcastle were out on a 24 hour strike this week with more potential action coming up.

First Bus drivers in north Staffordshire and south Cheshire are on their sixth one-day strike, part of an ongoing pay dispute.

If you go down to the festival today... In a special report, Matt D enters the murky world of security.