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Owen Jones Meets Yanis Varoufakis: Where Does The Left Go Next?

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How should we explain the 2019 Conservative landslide? Is factional struggle inherent to the Labour Party? How should European progressives tackle the economic crisis caused by COVID-19? Recorded on the evening that Joe Biden was formally declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential Election, Owen Jones and Yanis Varoufakis tackle some of the biggest issues facing the Left in 2021. Owen Jones is the author of the bestsellers Chavs and The Establishment: and How They Get Away With It. He is also a columnist for the Guardian and a frequent broadcaster. Yanis Varoufakis is the author of the bestselling Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism, is co-founder of the international grassroots movement, DiEM25, and in 2019 won election as one of its representatives in the Greek

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How should we explain the 2019 Conservative landslide? Is factional struggle inherent to the Labour Party? How should European progressives tackle the economic crisis caused by COVID-19? Recorded on the evening that Joe Biden was formally declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential Election, Owen Jones and Yanis Varoufakis tackle some of the biggest issues facing the Left in 2021.



Owen Jones is the author of the bestsellers Chavs and The Establishment: and How They Get Away With It. He is also a columnist for the Guardian and a frequent broadcaster. Yanis Varoufakis is the author of the bestselling Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism, is co-founder of the international grassroots movement, DiEM25, and in 2019 won election as one of its representatives in the Greek Parliament. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.



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Yanis Varoufakis
An accidental economist Let me begin with a confession: I am a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist. But let’s take things one at a time.

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