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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.

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.’

Alex Vitale, Andrea Ritchie, and Mychal Denzel Smith speak on the violence of the police state, the origins of modern policing, police violence against women of color and the activist groups working to end oppressive policing.

Samo Tomšič highlights the overlapping and often complementary features of the thought of Karl Marx and Jaques Lacan.

Nick Mahony introduces the Movement for Cultural Democracy, a test bed for new thinking and collective action. The movement, which seeks to change social, economic and cultural conditions through radical and transformative cultural programmes, is hosting a number of events at this year's The World Transformed in Liverpool.

Paul Virilio passed away on the 18^th of September 2018 at the age of 86. In this piece, Mark Lacy reflects on his life, work and contemporary relevance.

In this excerpt from Freud and the Non-European, Edward Said describes his method of situating historic thinkers and writers “contrapuntally.”

In this excerpt from Ryszard Kapuściński’s collected lectures on the concept of ‘The Other,’ the esteemed journalist grapples with the inextricable link between the Other and the Self.

Veronica Gago and Luci Cavallero on the struggles against austerity in Argentina, and the growing wave of violence against women - including the kidnapping and torture last week of the teacher Corina de Bonis for resisting the closure of schools in Moreno, Buenos Aires.

Paul Virilio, who died on the 10th September, was one of France's most celebrated cultural theorists. 

In this, the introduction to Open Sky, Virilio explores the social destruction wrought by modern technologies and critiques the breakdown of our collective and individual relation to time, space and movement in the context of global electronic media. 

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.

In this excerpt, Juan González and Joseph Torres argue for the importance of understanding the history of race and the American media system in order for a “democratic revolution of the U.S. media” to succeed.