Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Support our Crowdfunding project today so we can continue to produce independent news and analysis: https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/51400-actvism-munich-crowdfunding In this video founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, author & former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis,explains Germany's role in the European Union and what we should take into account when we hear the term "multi-speed" Europe. FOLLOW US ONLINE: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acTVism/...

Η Χάνα Αρέντ, πολύ σωστά, είχε πει ότι ακόμα και ένας μόνο γερμανός να είχε δολοφονηθεί στο Άουσβιτς λόγω της αντίστασής του στους ναζί (και είχαν δολοφονηθεί πολλοί), οι γερμανοί δεν φέρουν, ως λαός, συλλογική ευθύνη για τον ναζισμό. Από τότε που ξέσπαγε η παγκόσμια οικονομική κρίση, το 2008, κάποιοι ανησυχούσαμε μεγαλοφώνως ότι, δεδομένης της σαθρής δόμησης της ευρωζώνης, πολύ σύντομα η κρίση θα έστρεφε τον...

[embedded content] Keynote at the FundForum International conference in Berlin, 12th June 2017. Followed by a discussion with Megan Greene.

“We Come Bearing Gifts”—iLiana Fokianaki and Yanis Varoufakis on Documenta 14 Athens  Created in 1955 by artist and curator Arnold Bode, Documenta sought to advance the cultural reconstruction of Germany within the postwar European order. Reoccurring every five years, it has since unfolded into a periodic forum for contemporary art. When Adam Szymczyk was appointed artistic director of Documenta 14 in...

[embedded content] In September 2015, soon after Jeremy Corbyn’s election, I was asked to offer advice to the freshly elected Labour leader. My response was, following our experiences in Greece of defeating a resurgent, oligarchic media twice during that year: Do not get scared by the character assassination attempts of the systemic media. The systemic media will try to tear you apart. What...

Use of Original source material is intended as 'Fair Use'. Allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. (Here is a full list of youtube sources, not in any order) 1 Yanis Varoufakis on power, populism and the future of the EU 2 Can Europe Make It? - Yanis Varoufakis speaks to openDemocracy 3 Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda 4 Yanis Varoufakis and his plan to take on Europe -...

After DiEM25 published its collective decision to back fifteen Parliamentary candidates in tomorrow’s UK General Election, we received some interesting missives – mostly critical that included non-Labour candidates, including (lo and behold) Nick Clegg. This is a welcome ‘backlash’, in the sense that it gives us an opportunity to put things straight. DiEM25 was not created just to support existing political...

DiEM25 was formed to build a Progressive International across Europe. The UK, especially since Brexit prevailed in last year’s referendum, is a major battleground for European democracy. The way Brexit is handled will be crucial for the future of Britain but also for European peoples far and wide. DiEM25 could not be absent from this election campaign. DiEM25’s own position on what should happen once Brexit won...

Dragged behind a chariot, watched by the crowd If you studied economics at Sydney University in the 1990s, you might have had the good fortune to be taught in first year by a charismatic young lecturer who earned the nickname of the Greek God. Yanis Varoufakis, who in his youth bore some resemblance to John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, liked teaching first year because it gave him the opportunity to divest...

What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe’s hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power. ‘One of the greatest political memoirs of all time’ (Guardian) The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history when, as...