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Democracy under fire: My remarks at the London Press Conference on the vanishing right to protest

1 week ago | diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis gave a speech alongside Juliet Stevenson, Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, Jeremy Corbyn, Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal at a press conference titled ‘Democracy Under Fire’, at the Foreign Press Association, Royal Overseas League, London, on April 11. Here it is in full:We are here today because democracy is on death row, because the treasured right to dissent is at gunpoint, because your capacity to do journalism is under fire.
Should Le Pen be barred? What is the Left’s right answer on this conundrum?

2 weeks ago | diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis

This is a crucial conversation to have in general, not particularly about Marine Le Pen. It is about the principled position that the democratic Left must take on the question of who has the right to remove the political rights (the right to vote and to seek votes) of whom.
Will ‘Liberation Day’ transform the world? The Nixon Shock set a radical precedent

3 weeks ago | diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis |Daniel Engelke

“My philosophy, Mr President, is that all foreigners are out to screw us and it’s our job to screw them first.” With these words, the United States Treasury Secretary convinced the president to deliver a colossal shock to the global economy. In the words of one of the president’s men, the objective was to trigger “a controlled disintegration of the world economy”. No, those words were not spoken by members of president Donald Trump’s team in advance of their “Liberation Day” tariff splurge.
Britain wants Ukraine’s minerals too

1 month ago | diem25.org | Mark Curtis |John Broomer

It’s not just Trump. The UK views critical minerals as a government priority and wants to open up Ukraine’s vast resources to British corporationsWhen UK officials signed a 100 year partnership with Ukraine in mid-January, they claimed to be Ukraine’s “preferred partner” in developing the country’s “critical minerals strategy”.
Yanis Varoufakis on the upcoming German election: New government, same crisis

2 months ago | diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis

As Germany heads to the polls next Sunday, one thing is certain: a new chancellor will take office, but little else will change. Regardless of how a final coalition will be formed, Germany’s economic, social, and political trajectory will remain largely the same: austerity for the many, money printing for the few, and a steady march toward deindustrialisation. Our co-founder Yanis Varoufakis has given his view on the situation in Germany ahead of the federal election.
Yanis Varoufakis on why fixating on Palestine is a moral imperative

2 months ago | diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis

DiEM25’s co-founder condemned Europe’s complicity in global conflicts, from Palestine to Ukraine, and exposed the continent’s economic stagnation and subservience to US interestsThis morning, just before leaving the hotel to get here [to Amsterdam], somebody on X took a swipe at me for being fixated with Palestine. It was in response to a post celebrating yesterday’s inauguration of the Hague Group.
Varoufakis at the Hague Group’s inaugural meeting: Justice for Palestinians will also emancipate Israelis and Europeans

2 months ago | diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis

Varoufakis at the Hague Group’s inaugural meeting: Justice for Palestinians will also emancipate Israelis and Europeans By | 02/02/2025 Israel Palestine Yanis Varoufakis Nine governments just signed the new Hague Group’s Declaration. Hailing from Africa, Asia and Latin America, they represent the collective voice of the Global South but also a majority of the peoples of the Global North whose governments have been so shamelessly complicit in our generation’s ongoing genocide of the...
Star Trek: A humanist communist manifesto for our times

2 months ago | diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis

Star Trek’s main lesson for today’s left is that we need to avoid both a conservative techno-phobia and the liberal techno-optimists’ error of focusing on the technology and failing to appreciate that it all boils down to property rights and the political struggles surrounding them On 9 February 1967, hours after the US Air Force had levelled the Port of Haiphong and several Vietnamese airfields, NBC aired a Star Trek episode featuring a concept that clashed mercilessly with what had just...
Trump 2.0: What activists must do differently this time

2 months ago | diem25.org | Mehran Khalili

On Tuesday, I hosted a discussion for DiEMTVon what Trump’s second term could mean with Yanis Varoufakis and US political commentator Katie HalperThe entire conversation (above) is worth your time, but later in the show we got into what activists can do to resist Trump’s agenda, and lessons from his first term. Since the ‘how’ of effective activism is particularly close to my heart, I’ve isolated the most salient parts below.
The Gaza Genocide: The fall of Israel’s immunity

Jan 15, 2025 | diem25.org | Ramzy Baroud

A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to escape justice in Brazil. Vagdani was accused by a Palestinian advocacy legal group, the Hind Rajab Foundation, of carrying out well-documented crimes in Gaza. He is not the only Israeli soldier being pursued for similar crimes.