Videos
What to expect from Sunday’s German election – video
, 21/02/2025
On Sunday, Germany goes to the polls. The least significant result is that we shall have a new Chancellor: Mr Friedrich Mertz, the leader of the Christian Democrats, who will most likely receive double the votes of the unpopular incumbent social democratic Chancellor Mr Olaf Scholz, a politician destined either to return to a new […]
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism | On The Chris Hedges Report
, 08/02/2025
Yanis Varoufakis joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to explain how capitalism is dead and a new form of capital, the title of his new book, “Technofeudalism,” has arisen and holds power akin to the feudal lords of medieval times.
Novara Media’ Michael Walker and Yanis Varoufakis on Gaza, Trump’s Trade Wars, and DeepSeek
, 06/02/2025
Michael and I chatted about Trump’s tariffs, emphasising the need to see them as political tools that standard neoliberal economics can never fathom. On the ongoing genocide in Gaza, we discussed Trump’s ‘final real estate solution’ envisaging a Palestine without Palestinians – the Zionist’s wet dream. Finally, I explained why DeepSeek was a major blow […]
On Channel 4: Is Donald Trump’s tariff war about to backfire?
, 04/02/2025
Will Trump’s tariff wars backfire? And how should other world leaders, including Keir Starmer, react? In this episode of the Fourcast, Krishnan Guru-Murthy is joined by Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Erica York of the Tax Foundation think tank.
Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Francesca Albanese
, 30/01/2025
Shortly after the Gaza ceasefire deal was signed, I had the pleasure of a conversation with Francesca Albanese, the UN Rapporteur on Palestine. The occasion was MeRA25’s National Convention (Jan 2025) where this video was screened. Enjoy our conversation and, in particular, Francesca’s inimitable capacity to talk like a dispassionate lawyer and, at once, a […]
Cloud Capital vs AI: What DeepSeek means for technofeudalism & the New Cold War
, 28/01/2025
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, this week changed the global AI landscape, not to mention caused $1 trillion losses in the New York stock exchange and the NASDAC. In the process, it demonstrated the difference between cloud capital, which drives technofeudalism onward and upward, and AI-services, which were always a bubble waiting to […]
What to watch out for in the unfolding Palestinian genocide – a video briefing on 9th Jan 2025
, 09/01/2025
Watching, on the one hand, the Israeli soldiers’ video confessions of their genocidal intent and acts and, on the other hand, the Palestinians’ livestreaming of their own deaths and devastation, it is ever so easy to throw one’s hands up in the air, to despair, to want to shut the cruelty out, to find solace […]
Trump, the Dollar and China: What to watch for in 2025
, 31/12/2024
Trump wants to boost exports, bring back American jobs from overseas and reduce the trade deficit. To achieve this he needs a weaker dollar. Trump also wants a strong dollar and will not brook any challenges to its near monopoly of international payments. Can he possibly have both? Trump’s Problem No.1: His announced tariffs will […]
Πρωτοχρονιάτικο Μήνυμα 2025: Ευχές και μια ανάλυση της συγκυρίας
, 30/12/2024
Είμαι ο Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης με τις ευχές του ΜέΡΑ25 σε όλες κι όλους: φίλους, συνοδοιπόρους, επικριτές και αντίπαλους. Για εμάς, για το ΜέΡΑ25, το 2025 έχει ιδιαίτερη σημασία. Δεν είναι άλλωστε τυχαίο το 25 στο όνομά μας. Όταν τέτοια εποχή πριν δέκα χρόνια, τέλη του 2015, ιδρύαμε το κίνημά μας κόντρα στην ολοκλήρωση της Ευρωπαϊκής […]
A Message for 2025: DiEM25 predicted Europe’s fall – plus what we must do next
, 30/12/2024
Hello everyone. This is a message on behalf of DiEM25, the paneuropean movement that came together in Berlin when it was still possible to dream of reversing the degeneration of the European Union into an austerity union that drags the peoples of Europe down into a quagmire of naked exploitation of People and Nature, rampant […]
Yanis and Slavoj in London, celebrating Zizek at 75! – How to Academy
, 15/11/2024
On 15th November, I interviewed Slavoj Zizek, live on stage, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Judge for yourself whether we had fun (and maybe had something of interest to say…) To watch the rest click below: Part 2 – Trump is a fetish Part 3 “Israel Needed War” Part 4 Optimism or […]
ΤΕΧΝΟΦΕΟΥΔΑΡΧΙΑ – μια βιντεο-παρουσίαση του βιβλίου
, 02/07/2024
Όπου κι αν κοιτάξουμε, βλέπουμε το Κεφάλαιο να θριαμβεύει. Να κυριαρχεί παντού: στα εργοστάσια, στα γραφεία, στην ύπαιθρο, στα πανεπιστήμια, στις θάλασσες, στα νοσοκομεία, στα μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης – στο Διάστημα, αλλά και στον μικρόκοσμο των γενοτύπων. Πώς τολμώ λοιπόν να ισχυρίζομαι ότι ο καπιταλισμός εξοντώθηκε; Από ποιον; Η απολαυστικά ειρωνική απάντηση είναι ότι ο […]
Banned from Germany: Why? How? | Democracy Now! tv interview & an account in The New Statesman
, 22/04/2024
Watch my interview with Amy Goodman on DEMOCRACY NOW! on the German police’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices which led to my being banned in Germany. Also, below you can read my ‘Diary’ entry in THE NEW STATESMAN on the details and true causes of my ban. FROM THE NEW STATESMAN: As I write these lines, […]
Naomi Klein & Yanis Varoufakis on Gaza, Fascism & the Wrong Lesson from History
, 22/04/2024
Naomi Klein is the award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, politician, author and the former finance minister of Greece. Raoul Martinez is a philosopher, author and filmmaker. This podcast is released alongside the acclaimed new docuseries ‘In The Eye Of The Storm — The Political Odyssey Of Yanis […]
Europeans Have No Right to Tell Palestinians How to Escape Their Prison – with Rania Khalek
, 22/04/2024
Rania Khalek was joined by Yanis Varoufakis, economist, political leader, former Finance Minister of Greece and the author of many books including his latest “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism,” to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
My Berlin speech on Palestine that German police entered the venue to ban – and whose publication here led to my being banned from Germany!
, 13/04/2024
Watch/read the speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style) before I could address the meeting. Today, because I dared publish this speech here, the Ministry of Interior issued a “Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not just a […]
Reversing Europe’s and Australia’s slide into irrelevance & insecurity – National Press Club of Australia speech
, 14/03/2024
“Europe and Australia are facing a common existential threat: a creeping irrelevance caused, on the one hand, by our failure properly to invest and, on the other hand, by our ill-considered slide from a strategic dependence on the United States to a non-strategic, self-defeating servility to Washington’s policy agenda.” Yanis Varoufakis’s address at the National […]
Our Present Moment in History: a wide-ranging discussion with Aaron Bastani in a packed EarthH Theatre – 14th FEB 2024
, 02/03/2024
On 14th February 2024, I had the great privilege of a live discussion with Aaron Bastani in front of a marvellous audience at EartH in Hackney, North-East London. We talked about, of course, Israel-Palestine, but also about China and, in particular, the New Cold War being waged for control of what I call cloud capital. […]
Novara interview on almost everything (e.g. Crisis, Democracy, Syria, Israel-Palestine, Journalism at gunpoint)
, 22/02/2024
Ash speaks to Yanis Varoufakis and film director Raoul Martinez about their new film Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis, what the left got wrong after 2008 and the West’s complicity in the genocide happening in Gaza. You can buy ‘In The Eye of the Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis […]
PoliticsJOE interview on capitalism, technofeudalism, the Labour Party, Western Hegemony and Gaza
, 22/02/2024
Sat down to discuss the downfall of capitalism and Western hegemony, the Labour Party’s shunt to the right, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Also, we discussed Raoul Martinez’s documentary In The Eye of the Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis
The Politics & Letters Podcast – a (joyous) discussion on my TECHNOFEUDALISM
, 22/02/2024
What isn’t ending? What isn’t on the verge of extinction? It’s a short list of exemptions these days, and we, us human beings, aren’t on it. Neither are bees, bipartisanship, butterflies, coastlines, childhood, civility, coral reefs, democracy, elephants, empire, facts, families, frogs, gender, glaciers, God, higher education, humanities, love, male supremacy, manatees, manhood, men, morality, […]
«Σκληρό Μαρκάρισμα» : Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης – Βασίλης Σκουρής (σεζόν #2, επεισόδιο #2)
, 21/02/2024
Μια πραγματικά εφ’ όλης της ύλης ωριαία συνέντευξη στο πρόσφατο ΣΚΛΗΡΟ ΜΑΡΚΑΡΙΣΜΑ – μιας σειρά που δημιούργησε το ΜέΡΑ25 για να απαντήσει στη μιντιακή συστημική μονοφωνία, με συνεντεύξεις όπως έπρεπε να είναι, χωρίς ταμπού και υπαγορευμένες ερωτήσεις. Για την ανασυγκρότηση του ΜέΡΑ25 «Μπαίνοντας στη μάχη δε συζητάς για την ήττα», ήταν η απάντηση του Γιάνη […]
«Σκληρό Μαρκάρισμα» : Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης – Πάνος Χαρίτος (σεζόν #2, επεισόδιο #1)
, 10/02/2024
Μια πραγματικά εφ’ όλης της ύλης ωριαία συνέντευξη στο πρόσφατο ΣΚΛΗΡΟ ΜΑΡΚΑΡΙΣΜΑ – μιας σειρά που δημιούργησε το ΜέΡΑ25 για να απαντήσει στη μιντιακή συστημική μονοφωνία, με συνεντεύξεις όπως έπρεπε να είναι, χωρίς ταμπού και υπαγορευμένες ερωτήσεις. Θέλεις να μαθαίνεις για τις δράσεις του ΜεΡΑ25; Γράψου εδώ.
Technofeudalism -a video essay summarising the book
, 04/02/2024
Wherever we turn, we witness the triumph of capital. Capital has prevailed everywhere: in warehouses, factories, offices, universities, public hospitals, the media – in space but also in the microcosm of genetic engineering. So, how do I dare claim that capitalism has been killed? By whom? The deliciously ironic answer is that capitalism was killed […]