Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Anti-capitalists had a miserable year. But so did capitalism. While the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party in the UK this month threatened the radical left’s momentum, particularly in the US, where the presidential primaries loom, capitalism found itself under fire from some unexpected quarters. Billionaires, CEOs, and even the financial press have joined intellectuals and community leaders in a...

[embedded content] Is capitalism past its due date? Can we even imagine a world without it? On 14th November 2019 Martin Wolf and Yanis Varoufakis debated the question ‘Should liberal capitalism be saved?’. Hosted on November 14, 2019 by the Financial Times to celebrate the Wincott Foundation’s 50th Anniversary, this special live event took the place of the usual annual Harold Wincott...

On December 15 Yanis Varoufakis, MeRA25 MP and DiEM25 co-founder, spoke at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey. In his talk, he covered post-capitalism, the Green New Deal and the future of democracy in Europe and beyond. A must watch! Join our growing movement: https://diem25.org/join

Εύχομαι σε όλους να καταφέρουμε φέτος να ρίξουμε μαύρη πέτρα στην δεκαετία της βαρβαρότητας. Κάθε μία από τις δέκα περασμένες Πρωτοχρονιές έσφυζε από τις ψευδείς υποσχέσεις ενός συστήματος εξουσίας που, ενώ έφερε την Κρίση, επιμένει να αυτοπαρουσιάζεται ως η Λύση. Όμως, όπως καλά γνωρίζουμε, Η προκοπή, η δικαιοσύνη, η αξιοπρέπεια, η ειρήνη δεν θα έρθουν μόνες τους. Οι εξώσεις και η στυγνή...

Σήμερα αποχαιρετήσαμε έναν σπάνιο για την βαρβαρότητα των καιρών οικουμενικό άνθρωπο, έναν παγκόσμιας εμβέλειας δημιουργό, ένα φίλο που, ευτυχώς, δεν έπαψε να είναι “επικίνδυνος”, θυμίζοντας στους λαούς ότι “έτσι κι αλλιώς η γη θα γίνει κόκκινη. Είτε κόκκινη από ζωή είτε κόκκινη από θάνατο.”...

Every year for nearly 70 years, the Guardian has collected the best of its journalism into a book – the BEDSIDE GUARDIAN. This year,  Bedside Guardian 2019 is edited by Aditya Chakrabortty with Paul Johnson, deputy editor, alongside  Jonathan Freedland, Zoe Williams Emma Graham-Harrison. The editors were kind enough to ask me to write the Foreword. As it reflects my take on 2019, I thought posting it here might...

Yunanistan’ın eski Maliye Bakanı Yanis Varufakis, kurucusu olduğu DiEM25 (Avrupa’da Demokrasi Hareketi) hareketinin Türkiye'deki faaliyetlerine destek olmak için İstanbul'a geldi. Varufakis ile Birleşik Krallık’taki seçim sonuçlarını, Avrupa Birliği’nin geleceğini ve DiEM25'i konuştuk. Haber: Alp Kadıoğlu Video-Kurgu: Gamze Türkkaynağı BirGün'ün gündeme dair haber videolarından anında haberdar olmak için kanalımıza abone olmayı unutmayın ➡ https://goo.gl/kQ5RDy ► https://www.birgun.net...

Zum zehnjährigen Bestehen von Kontext TV haben David Goeßmann und Fabian Scheidler ein Buch mit einer Auswahl von Interviews zu drängenden Gegenwarts- und Zukunftsthemen herausgegeben: Der Kampf um globale Gerechtigkeit Gespräche mit Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Immanuel Wallerstein, Yanis Varoufakis, Ulrike Herrmann, Harald Schumann, Wangui Mbatia, Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill, Stefan Rahmstorf, George Monbiot, Maude Barlow, Alyn Ware, Srećko Horvat, Aminata Traoré, Alberto Acosta,...

Yanis Varoufakis, MeRA25 MP and DiEM25 co-founder, on why he's supporting the UK Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn, in the upcoming UK general election and why you should too. #ForTheMany #VoteLabour Music: http://bensound.com

Speech by Yanis Varoufakis, MeRA25 MP and DiEM25 co-founder, during our 2019 Prague Assembly where around 300 activists from across Europe gathered under the motto “How to save the EU and the planet?” in order to present and discuss their proposals for the future of our movement in a unique participatory process. More information: https://diem25.org/300-activists-gather-to-help-define-diem25s-strategy-to-take-on-the-eu-establishment/