Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση αποδομείται. Από τη μία, η εν εξελίξει εσωτερική ευρωπαϊκή κρίση δημιουργεί ρωγμές που, από μόνες τους, ήταν ικανές να φέρουν την κατάρρευση της Ε.Ε. Από την άλλη, έχουμε έναν πρόεδρο Τραμπ ο οποίος με πρόγραμμα και μεθοδικότητα, έχοντας γνώση των ρωγμών αυτών, στοχεύει στην αποδόμηση της Ε.Ε. μέσω επιθετικών κινήσεων στη σφαίρα του διεθνούς εμπορίου και της γεωπολιτικής. Μπροστά σε αυτόν τον...

Socialism is internationalist. As socialists, we ought to be taking down borders between workers; not putting new ones up. Labour deserves, at a minimum, the same rights and freedoms as capital if we are to be masters of the system, not its servants. The political aim of the Left has always been to improve labour, social and environmental conditions. At present, the goal of the UK Left should be to place...

Yanis Varoufakis (Cofounder of the grassrouts movement DiEM25), Greek economist, academic and politician, served as the Greek Minister of Finance (January to July 2015). Varoufakis taught economics and econometrics at the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia, and also taught at the University of Cambridge (1982 and 1988). He did not wish to return to Greece for fear of conscription, and so accepted an offer to lecture at the University of Sydney, where he remained until...

"Money is a political construct, a construct of community, a construct of a society, that must be political. And if we do not control this, by definition, political force, because money is a force—it makes the world go round, as we know—if this political force it not controlled democratically, then we do not live in a democracy." Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance for Greece at the height of Europe's debt crisis, was at the Appel Salon as part of the TPL's #OnCivilSociety...

How should parents talk to their children about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others, how democracy can improve the Economy. Yanis Varoufakis as Finance Minister of Greece negotiated with the decision makers of the European Union for a workable solution to Greek's debt crisis. He was replaced before the decision were finalized. The debt crisis is now worse and Greece is in a deep depression. Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before...

Three years ago, today, the people of Greece staged a rebellion against their debt bondage. Though this rebellion was overthrown from within almost immediately, it remains a remarkable testimony to the power of a people to say No to the oligarchy, to wrestle control of the narrative of their circumstances from the inanely authoritarian elites, and to overcome the fear which a tiny minority uses to take the demos...

Μέρες πριν από τις εκλογές του Ιανουαρίου του 2015, ερωτηθείς από ξένο κανάλι για το εάν θα φορούσα γραβάτα σε περίπτωση υπουργοποίησής μου, απάντησα ότι, ναι, θα φορέσω γραβάτα τη μέρα που το ελληνικό δημόσιο χρέος θα αναδιαρθρωθεί ώστε να γίνει βιώσιμο και να τερματιστεί η λιτότητα που ξεκληρίζει τη χώρα. Αυτή έγινε η κοινή μας «γραμμή» μετά την ορκωμοσία της πρώτης κυβέρνησης ΣΥΡΙΖΑ. Την εβδομάδα που πέρασε ο...

[embedded content] Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis discusses the European Union agreement on migration which he calls “a fudge” and “complete failure.” He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg)  June 29th, 2018, 2:05 PM GMT+0300

"Elections cannot be allowed to change the economic policy of any country" opposition says to Varoufakis. This, according to Varoufakis, is the greatest gift to communist party of China because they believe this too. Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician, who served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015, when he resigned. Whereas Noam Chomsky, described as "the father of modern linguistics", is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive...

ATHENS – Europe’s establishment is luxuriating in two recent announcements that would have been momentous even if they were only partly accurate: The end of Greece’s debt crisis, and a Franco-German accord to redesign the eurozone. Unfortunately, both reports offer fresh proof of the European Union establishment’s remarkable talent for never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity. The two announcements...