Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

For der Freitag’s site click here. To read my original English answers… Mr Varoufakis, the current unemployment rate in the Eurozone is at 9,8%, the lowest since July 2009. One could get the impression things are getting better… It is, I grant you, still perfectly possible for those who wish to remain in denial to read the data in a manner that allows them to remain in denial – to their own detriment and to the detriment of Europe. But for those who want the unembellished truth, the...

A few years ago, in a televised chat with other French progressives, Benoît Hamon succinctly exposed the essence of our troubles in Europe: “[EU] governments may change,” he said, “but not the policies”. Since then, the Socialist former Education minister has been developing policy proposals to help steer both the EU’s second-largest economy and the European project away from its current destructive socioeconomic spiral. From his calls for universal income and proposals for humanitarian visas...

[embedded content] This video, prepared by and for BBC Newsnight, foreshadows DiEM25’s European New Deal – which will be made available in full during February. The script follows: Having dismissed their poverty as a personality defect and their zero hour contracts as efficiency improvements, the Deep Establishment now looks on in despair as a Nationalist International triumphs. Two are its handmaidens: Involuntary under-employment – the bitter price of austerity And involuntary migration –...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]    Brian Eno’s talk Yanis Varoufakis talk Discussion NEW: A 3 minute edit of Varoufakis’ talk with a Brian Eno soundtrack (Thursday afternoon) – thanks Jason Ghionis!  

Já pensaram porque é que os políticos já não são o que costumavam ser? Porque é que os governos parecem incapazes de resolver os problemas reais? O economista Yanis Varoufakis, antigo ministro das Finanças da Grécia, diz que é porque hoje podemos ser politicos mas não temos poder — porque o poder real pertence hoje aos que controlam a economia. Acha que os ultrarricos e as grandes empresas estão a canibalizar esfera política, provocando uma crise financeira. Nesta palestra, oiçam o seu sonho...

Yanis Varoufakis made his way to Britain recently as part of his tours of the continent, aiming to mobilise support for DiEM25 and its Progressive Agenda for Europe. During his visit over the weekend, Yanis and some other leading DiEMers hosted an event in London at Conway Hall to assemble together Europe-minded British progressives and kick-start their mobilisation. The previous day, on the Friday, Yanis, along with Srećko Horvat and Elif Şafak attended an event hosted by The Guardian,...

by Andrew J. Brown On Saturday morning, January 28, 2017, at Conway Hall in Central London, long an important place for radical religious, philosophical, social and political thinking in the UK, DiEM25 held its UK organisational launch. Like all DiEM25 gatherings, more than half of the meeting was made up of conversations involving those attending. To set the scene and introduce some important initial ideas, the morning began with brief contributions from Brian Eno, Elif Şafak, Agnieszka...

Brian Eno’s talk https://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/eno-speech-value.mp3 Yanis Varoufakis talkhttps://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/varoufakis-speech-value.mp3 Discussionhttps://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/discussion.mp3

Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Žižek, James K. Galbraith and Jeffrey Sachs explain why Yanis Varoufakis is both hero, a 'Thucydides of our time', and more needed than ever in world after Brexit, Trump and the biggest test for Western democracies in recent memory. And The Weak Suffer What They Must? is out now in paperback. Find out more here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/yanis-varoufakis/1079040/