Posts By: Yanis Varoufakis

Victory Day 80 years on: The fight against fascism continues

Opinion

8.05.2025

As we honour those who defeated fascism in 1945, Yanis Varoufakis urges us to recognise the fight is far from over

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How the Trump Shock exposed the delusions of Europe’s centrists

Opinion

6.05.2025

The Trump Shock has revealed just how unprepared the UK and EU are for a collapsing global order

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Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism

24.04.2025

For the technofeudal lords, losing money from Trump’s tariff extravaganza in the short run is a tiny price to pay for a massive long term ...

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Democracy under fire: Yanis Varoufakis’ remarks in London on the vanishing right to protest

14.04.2025

Yanis Varoufakis gave a speech alongside Juliet Stevenson, Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, Jeremy Corbyn, Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal at a ...

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Should Le Pen be barred? What is the Left’s right answer on this conundrum?

9.04.2025

This is a crucial conversation to have in general, not particularly about Marine Le Pen. It is about the principled position that the democratic ...

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Will ‘Liberation Day’ transform the world? The Nixon Shock set a radical precedent

2.04.2025

Commentators should know better than to pretend that the shock Trump is now delivering is both “unprecedented” and bound to fail like all ...

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Trump’s crypto time bomb: Don’t trust his Bitcoin privateers

Opinion

20.03.2025

While he dismissed Bitcoin as a scam during his first White House stint, Donald Trump has now definitively changed tack

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Yanis Varoufakis on the upcoming German election: New government, same crisis

19.02.2025

Regardless of how a final coalition will be formed, Germany’s economic, social, and political trajectory will remain largely the same

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Donald Trump’s economic masterplan

Opinion

10.02.2025

Faced with President Trump’s economic moves, his centrist critics oscillate between desperation and a touching faith that his tariff frenzy will ...

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