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Yanis Varoufakis on Democracy Now discussing the fiscal waterboarding Greece was subjected to. Greece dared challenge the EU dictatorship. For that Greece had to be punished. The loans to Greece did not bail out Greece, they were bailouts for French and German banks. The money flowed into Greece, and straight…

Gerardo Pisarello, Barcelona's First Deputy Mayor, posing crucial questions on the state of capitalism, whether democracy has room to breathe nowadays, the need for a pan-European movement, the place of City Halls and municipalism in such a movement... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypLfsKjdIZw  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWB6lY2GBjQ Academic freedom is something we should value and cherish. Too many universities are bums-on-seats businesses with academics on fixed-term contracts judged by the income they generate for the university, measured by the number of worthless papers they churn out, meanwhile university vice-chancellors are on obscene salaries. Man needs models to understand the universe. With…

The musician meets the economist

It should come as no surprise, that The Times and Telegraph have mounted an unpleasant smear campaign against former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, accusing him of profiteering from the G...

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of democracy. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: The state-sponsored bankers and the Eurogroup, the Troika and Dr Schäuble, Spain’s heirs of Franco’s political legacy and the SPD’s Berlin leadership, Baltic governments that subjected their populations to terrible, unnecessary recession and Greece’s resurgent oligarchy.

Aula inaugural dos programas de doutoramento do CES em 17 de Outubro de 2015, na Universidade de Coimbra. Esta conferência estava disponível em: https://www....

Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece, has appealed directly to Jeremy Corbyn, the new shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and the new shadow secretary for international development Diane Abbott at a meeting of the People's Assembly in London.

Talk by Yanis Varoufakis author of "And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future" recorded April 24, 2016 at Town Hal

Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, or DiEM 25, is billed as an alternative to prevailing authoritarianism and austerity.

Yanis Varoufakis in discussion at AlpenSymposium. Extend and pretend, grant huge loans to a  country, in this case Greece, when it is known the loans cannot be repaid, the loans then used as an excuse to destroy a country. Last January, Syriza were elected to great hope. Six months later they betrayed…

For the documentary #ThisIsACoup we conducted in-depth interviews with key members of the first Syriza government. Here former finance minister Yanis Varoufa...

The long read: Before he entered politics, Yanis Varoufakis, the iconoclastic Greek finance minister at the centre of the latest eurozone standoff wrote this searing account of European capitalism and how the left can learn from Marx’s mistakes

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist Professor of Economics and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis in conversa...

Great presentation by the former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, on the democracy deficit in EU institutions. Watch the video here:

Varoufakis’ fans get ready! The ex finance minister is preparing to launch a European movement that will develop into a political party. Yanis Varoufakis will push for a Pan-Εuropean network for fight austerity. Instead of running for the upcoming elections, he will put his energy into political action on European level.