Με λύπη, και μετά από πολλή σκέψη, ανακοινώνω την απόφασή μου να αποσυρθώ από το διεθνές συνέδριο που διοργανώνει η Τουρκική κρατική ραδιοτηλεόραση (TRT World) στην Κωνσταντινούπολη την 21η Οκτωβρίου. Yanis Varoufakis will be taking part in "New Horizons for Emerging Powers: Co-operation or Competition?" at #TRTWorldForum on 21 Oct. Visit our website: https://t.co/0KU517OhcO pic.twitter.com/pAMulNY4eh […]
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I just pulled out of a conference in Turkey in protest at the invasion of Northern Syria’s Kurdish region
It is with profound regret, and after much reflection, that I am pulling out as a speaker at an interesting and worthy international conference organised by TRT World in Istanbul on 21st October. I do so in protest of the Turkish armed forces’ invasion of Northern Syria. The ongoing invasion is not only an assault […]
Μεταναστευτικό: Το ΜέΡΑ25 & ο Αναποτελεσματικός Μισανθρωπισμός του Μνημονιακού Δικομματισμού
Τα πράγματα είναι, δυστυχώς, απλά. Το έγκλημα της Μόρια δεν προκύπει από αμέλεια αλλά είναι σχεδιασμένο. Η κυβέρνηση του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ που δημιούργησε την Μόρια, υπό τον κ. Μουζάλα, ως στρατόπεδο όπου συνωστίζονται και στιβάζονται ανθρώπινα ράκη, το έπραξε συνειδητά με σκοπό να σηματοδοτεί στους συγγενείς και φίλους τους “μην έρθετε στην Ελλάδα, τα πράγματα είναι […]
Naomi Klein supports MeRA25-DiEM25’s campaign against oil & gas extraction in Greece
This morning, in Greece’s Parliament, MeRA25’s parliamentarians are staging an all-out struggle against the ratification of disastrous contracts between the previous (SYRIZA) government and multinational oil companies. The contracts to be ratified give the companies (including Exxon-Mobil and Total) full licence to drill, extract and exploit gas & oil reserves across Greece’s beautiful seas (Ionian, […]
Η εσωτερική δημοκρατία του DiEM25-ΜέΡΑ25 στην πράξη
Η κορυφαία καθολική ψηφοφορία των μελών DiEM25-ΜέΡΑ25 για την εκλογή της νέας Συντονιστικής Επιτροπής είναι σε εξέλιξη. Μην ξεχάσεις να ψηφίσεις έως την 28η Αυγούστου Όταν λέμε ότι το κίνημά μας είναι το πρώτο ενιαίο πανευρωπαϊκό δημοκρατικό κίνημα, το εννοούμε. Ζούμε και βιώνουμε την δημοκρατία στην πράξη. Κάθε εβδομάδα τα μέλη απ΄ όλη την Ευρώπη […]
My first speech as MeRA25 leader in Parliament – with English subtitles
MeRA25’s entry into Greece’s Parliament marks the return of anti-austerity, anti-troika, radical europeanism. In this first speech I outlined our campaign to oppose the new parasitic oligarchy that New Democracy will be building on the 4th Bailout deal with the troika that SYRIZA left behind
What the Labour Party-DiEM25 collaboration is all about – speech by Yanis Varoufakis, now with video
On Sunday 14th July, the Labour Party and DiEM25 leadership teams agreed to embark upon a common agenda for Europe and beyond. Later that day, the collaboration was announced at the closing plenary of the International Social Forum convened by the Labour Party at SOAS, London and opened by Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour […]
Against extractive practices (social & environmental). Interviewed by Kate Aronoff for DISSENT
“We have to talk to people in a way that combines addressing these [economic] anxieties with the issues of the environment. Unless we manage to do that, we will fail.” Kate Aronoff Summer 2019 Yanis Varoufakis celebrating the anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 2018 (Pedro Ribeiro Simões/Flickr) The last few years have been […]
How Syriza’s capitulations allowed the Greek right to escape the dustbin of history – The New Statesman
The left-wing party’s embrace of austerity created the conditions for a parasitic and cruel oligarchy to return The Greek right is back: greedier, uglier and more focused than ever. The incoming New Democracy government is determined to reclaim full control of the state on behalf of the most parasitic segment of Greece’s oligarchy and, of course, of […]
MeRA25 as the only ray of hope on the day the recalcitrant Greek Right returned to office – Election Night message
Greece’s Tories, the New Democracy party and its leader, Mr Kyriakos Mitsotakis, today are the victors in our general election. However, their victory that was set in motion on the night of the referendum (5th July 2015) by Mr Tsipras, the outgoing Prime Minister. Lest we forget, it was immediately after the Greek people’s magnificent NO […]
MeRA25: Greek progressives’ chance to take the fight against austerity back into Parliament – JACOBIN
Amid the bad results for the Left in the European elections, the Greek outcome was particularly poignant. In the last such contest in 2014, Syriza rode the revolt against austerity to become the largest single party, in its final step toward national office. Five years later, in last month’s election, it finished ten points behind the […]
Today, DiEM25 has every reason to celebrate. Tomorrow we get down to work, again – Message to our magnificent activists
“We showed Europeans how a common agenda can be put together collaboratively by many political actors coalescing from all over Europe. How a common list of candidates, in support of this common agenda, can emerge. How we can campaign across Europe, together, under the banner of this agenda. In the months and weeks leading to […]
Why we are running in this EU election – FORTUNE magazine’s report
Nothing has ever been subtle with Yanis Varoufakis, the leather-jacketed, motorbike-riding economist who was finance minister of Greece for six of the most tumultuous months in that country’s history. Plain-spoken (to say the least) and a self-professed radical, he is, at 58, not nearly done waging war on Europe’s major power players. This week, he […]