Posts By: Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis on the tragic situation in Moria

11.09.2020

What would you do if you, your family and another 13000 people were incarcerated in a prison camp built for 1800 people?

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Something remarkable just happened this August: How the pandemic has sped up the passage to postcapitalism

25.08.2020

In the post-2008 world, speculators don’t actually give a damn about the economy. COVID-19 found capitalism in this zombified state.

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Why Bitcoin is not a socialist’s ally: Reply to Ben Arc

28.07.2020

I remain as enthusiastic on blockchain’s capacities and as unimpressed by Bitcoin’s ability to help us to civilise or transcend capitalism.

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While EU leaders squabble, the Elephant in the Room remains unnoticed

18.07.2020

While the media are reporting the news of the deadlocked EU Summit negotiations over the so-called ‘Recovery Fund’, an eerie silence prevails ...

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Europe’s Recovery Fund: An instrument of class war against weaker Europeans everywhere

29.06.2020

The Recovery Fund, seen against the backdrop of huge austerity, dispels any hope that the unremitting class war against Europe’s many will subside.

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Varoufakis: I urge people in Croatia to vote for the Green-Left Coalition

29.06.2020

The new Croatian government will be called upon to protect the people of Croatia not only from the virus, but more importantly from pauperisation.

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Julian Assange just called. To talk about the pandemic’s effect on capitalism & politics!

13.06.2020

Julian Assange calls from Belmarsh Prison and to talk to Yanis Varoufakis: “I want a perspective on world developments out there.”

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A Chronicle of a Lost Decade Foretold

3.06.2020

The pandemic stripped away the veneer of indifference to reveal the political reality: some people do have the power to tell the rest of us what ...

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DiEM25’s vision of Europe for the Post-Pandemic Era: Some personal thoughts

24.04.2020

Now that a virus has placed European capitalism in suspended animation, our Vision of Europe demands new radicalism, new alliances, and new ruptures.

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