Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

For a manifesto to succeed, it must speak to our hearts like a poem while infecting the mind with images and ideas that are dazzlingly new. It needs to open our eyes to the true causes of the bewildering, disturbing, exciting changes occurring around us, exposing the possibilities with which our current reality is pregnant. It should make us feel hopelessly inadequate for not having recognised these truths...

Progressive people and politicians in the UK should end the “idiocy” of wishing for a second referendum on Brexit and instead turn to what can be salvaged from leaving the EU, according to Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister. Even though the UK is likely to leave the EU with a bad deal, it can still work with other governments on the continent to end austerity and raise living standards, he said....

LISBON – It used to be an axiom of liberalism that freedom meant inalienable self-ownership. You were your own property. You could lease yourself to an employer for a limited period, and for a mutually agreed price, but your property rights over yourself could not be bought or sold. Over the past two centuries, this liberal individualist perspective legitimized capitalism as a “natural” system populated by free...

https://democracynow.org - In the latest economic fallout from President Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the landmark Iran nuclear agreement, top White House officials said Sunday that the Trump administration is prepared to impose sanctions on European companies that do business with Iran. We get response from former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varifoufakis, who was the chief negotiator of Greece’s bailout with the European Union and International Monetary Fund. He also...

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis makes capital comprehensible Skip to content Have you noticed how angry everyone is? Turn on the news or scroll through your social media feed, and you'll see a kaleidoscope of rage. People are relitigating the last election or f...

Presented jointly by the The New School for Social Research and the Schools of Public Engagement. This conversation between Yanis Varoufakis, economist, academic and former Greek Minister of Finance, and Will Milberg, dean of The New School for Social Research, will build upon the themes in Varoufakis' latest book Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism. Capitalism has shown remarkable resilience in the face of left-wing and social democratic assaults...

Greek Ex-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and his wife Danae Stratou, join the May Day rally in Athens and march with supporters of his newly launched political party Mera25 (ΜέΡΑ25). Yanis Varoufakis makes a statement about the message of today's mobilization. He says: "The 1st of May is a splendid opportunity for us to remember, that the working class of the world, - not of our countries individually - is obliged by History to fight the same struggles again and again and again. There is...

Today, May 1, we struggle not to forget the sacrifices of generations of workers  to etch onto the world’s collective conscience the crucial principle that labour is not, and can never be, just another commodity. We struggle to remember past struggles so that the next struggles can be won in the name of humanism. The 1st of May commemoration is not an exercise in remembrance alone: Today’s generation is...

Σήμερα, Πρωτομαγιά, απλά πασχίζουμε να μην ξεχνάμε τους προηγούμενους ώστε να κερδηθούν οι επόμενοι: Τον Μάη 1886 στο Σικάγο Την μεγάλη απεργία του 1896 στο Λαύριο Tην Φεντερασιόν του Αβραάμ Μπεναρόγια και τους νεκρούς της Πρωτομαγιάς του 1911 στην Θεσσαλονίκη Τον Κρητικό συνδικαλιστή Λούη Τίκα, που έπεσε στο Κολοράντο το 1914 στην σφαγή απεργών στα ορυχεία του Ροκφέλερ Τους νεκρούς απεργούς των ορυχείων...

Το αφήγημα του κατεστημένου ήταν και παραμένει: Να παραμείνουμε «υποδειγματικοί κρατούμενοι» ώστε να παραμείνουμε εντός της ευρωζώνηης έως ότου οι Βορειοευρωπαίοι  προχωρήσουν σε λύσεις τύπου Μακρόν. Τα ψέματα όμως τελείωσαν. Η δολοφονία της μετριοπαθούς πρότασης Μακρόν ήταν η τελευταία ευκαιρία μιας συστημικής μεταρρύθμισης του συστήματος. Αυτή η ευρωζώνη δεν θα μεταρρυθμιστεί μέσα από συναινετικές διαδικασίες!...