Today, John McDonnell will deliver a keynote speech on plans to transform economy at the Labour party conference 2018. In this edited excerpt from his introduction to Economics for the Many, McDonnell lays out his manifesto for Labour's vision for a new economics, one that works for the many, not the few. Featuring contributions from thinkers and writers including Ann Pettifor, Nick Srnicek, Costas Lapavitsas, Barry Gardiner and Prem Sikka, Economics for the Many covers topics from housing, public ownership and fairer international trading systems to industrial policy for the twenty-first century and how to tackle tax avoidance and regional imbalances.

Guardian journalist and Verso author, Nina Lakhani fighting intimidation from an online smear campaign which she believes could be led by a military intelligence group for reporting on the murder trial of Honduran indigenous leader Berta Cáceres.

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In John McDonnell's Economics for the Many, laying out a new vision for economics, Ann Pettifor makes a compelling case for Green Energy to be at the heart of Labour's economic policy. ‘It is vital that a Labour government removes Britain’s finance sector from its role as master of the British economy, and instead ensures that it is made servant to the transformation of the economy away from dependence on fossil fuels and financial speculation.’

War determines the way capitalism’s possibilities are conceived, even if capital, and individual capitalists, neither desire nor use war to achieve their ends.