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City Lights and Melville House present Yannis Varoufakis in conversation with Peter Maravelis, discussing "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" by Yannis Varoufakis, published by Melville House. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/topographies/technofeudalism/ Perhaps we were too distracted by the pandemic, or the endless financial crises, or the rise of TikTok. But under cover of them all, a new and more exploitative system has been taking hold. Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies after the crash of 2008 went to big tech instead. With it they funded the construction of their private cloud fiefdoms and privatized the internet. Technofeudalism says Yanis Varoufakis, is the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world, and is the greatest current threat to the liberal individual, to our efforts to avert climate catastrophe—and to democracy itself. It also lies behind the new geopolitical tensions, especially the New Cold War between the United States and China. Drawing on stories from Greek myth and pop culture, from Homer to Mad Men, Varoufakis explains this revolutionary transformation: how it enslaves our minds, how it rewrites the rules of global power, and, ultimately, what it will take overthrow it. Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and academic, a bestselling author, and the former finance minister of Greece. He is a co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. His books include "And the Weak Suffer What They Must?," "Talking to My Daughter About the Economy," "Adults in the Room," and "Foundations of Economics." Praise for "Technofeudalism:" “Blending intellectual memoir, history, and economic and technological history, Varoufakis creates an intimate atmosphere that is a genuine pleasure to read … It's hard to read this book and deny its power … illuminating.” — The Washington Post “An outstanding economist and political analyst.” — Noam Chomsky "Arresting … an ambitious thinker and a lively writer … Varoufakis is right that we are in thrall to digital platforms, who hold our data hostage and prevent us from switching to 'a competing cloud fief'" ― The Times (London) Originally broadcast via Zoom on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation. https://citylights.com/foundation/

0:08 — Yanis Varoufakis is former finance minister of Greece, now Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, and co-founder of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. 0:33 — Emily Weintraut is a doctoral student in UC Davis' Department of Food Science and Technology and unit chair of the UC Davis chapter of UAW. 0:45 — John Cavarello is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University Channel Islands. Julia is a concerned CSU faculty member. The post European Elections with Yanis Varoufakis; Plus, CA Campus Organizing Around Gaza War appeared first on KPFA.

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Srećko Horvat, a philosopher, author, and co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. Am and Srećko discuss the journey behind launching the Island School of Social Autonomy on the Adriatic island of Vis. ISSA is a place for imagining, experimenting with and cultivating forms of knowledge-production and knowledge-sharing for the “age of extinction”.. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/242-srecko-horvat.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/242-srecko-horvat.html Resources: Srećko Horvat: https://sreckohorvat.org/ Island School of Social Autonomy: https://issa-school.org/ Subversive Festival: https://subversivefestival.com/ Democracy in Europe Movement 2025: https://diem25.org/en/ The Radicality of Love: https://sreckohorvat.org/the-radicality-of-love/ After the Apocalypse: https://sreckohorvat.org/after-the-apocalypse/ Bio: A Croatian philosopher and author who produced a blizzard of political works – with several books published when he was barely into his thirties. Nowadays he is known as a fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape. If you aren't familiar with Horvat's work, you can probably recognise a lot of people who are. He is friends with the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis; had regular visits with Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, an organisation that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. He is also a staunch friend of Slavoj Žižek, the maverick Slovenian celebrity academic with whom Horvat co-wrote a book in 2013 entitled “What Does Europe Want?”. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel. Aside from co-founding DiEM25, which campaigns to reform the EU into a “realm of shared prosperity, peace and solidarity”, he is a founder of the Subversive festival, an annual jamboree in Zagreb of radical thought that has featured the likes of Oliver Stone and Antonio Negri. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Island School of Social Autonomy — with Srećko Horvat.” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, May 21, 2024. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/242-srecko-horvat.html.

Guest: Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and academic, a bestselling author, and the former finance minister of Greece. He is a co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025.  His books include And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, and his latest, Technofeudalism: WHAT KILLED CAPITALISM.   Foto credit: Wikimedia The post Yanis Varoufakis of how Technofeudalism is Replacing Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.

Die jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost lud am 12. April zu einem Palästina Kongress nach Berlin-Tempelhof ein, wo 23 Redner aller Couleur in Vorträgen und Diskussionsrunden die Situation in Gaza und die internationale, vor allem aber die deutsche Beteiligung des Krieges ventilieren wollten. Er sollte nicht stattfinden. Die Polizei drang ein und löste die Veranstaltung auf. Die Gründe sind aus allen ideologischen und theatralen Richtungen in Konzern- und freien Medien nachzulesen . Worauf wir aber hinweisen wollen, ist das verhängte Einreiseverbot für einen der Redner, nämlich den ehemaligen griechischen Finanzminister und Gründer des Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, Yanis Varoufakis. Und weil wir unseren Hörern die Beurteilung seiner Rede selbst überlassen wollen, bringen wir hier sein Original-Statement zur Palästina-Konferenz. Die deutsche Übersetzung spricht Ulrich Allroggen.

Arturo Desimone writings on politics and culture has appeared in CounterPunch, Compact, openDemocracy, the Fortnightly Review, and Sublation Magazine. From 2018 to 2021 he was a co-founding member of the "Peace and International Policy" a subdivision of the "Democracy in Europe Movement" which concerned itself with the movement's critiques of EU foreign policy and security issues. In this episode of Diet Soap Arturo discusses the meaning of Yanis Varoufakis. 

Capitalism is dying, but not in the way you might think. That's the argument of academic economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who proposes capitalism has mutated into a far more sinister, feudal system on the back of sophisticated algorithms and big tech. On this episode of Follow the Money, recorded live at the State Library of NSW, Varoufakis speaks with the Australia Institute's Ebony Bennett and Stephen Long about his proposition and his new book, Technofeudalism. This episode was recorded on Tuesday 12 March. australiainstitute.org.au // @theausinstitute Guest: Yanis Varoufakis, Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 and former Greek Finance Minister // @yanisvaroufakis Host: Stephen Long, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, the Australia Institute // @StephenLongAus Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey Additional editing: Emily Perkins Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot SessionsSupport Follow the Money: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest this week is host of one of my must-listen podcasts - one I've been following since the spring, when Dr Simon Michaux mailed me and said, you need to listen to Rachel - and he was right. Rachel Donald is host of Planet: Critical one of the world's top-rated podcasts on the poly-crisis and systems change.  She interviews some really big players on the world stage with integrity and panache - her conversation with Alastair Campbell where she never lets him off the hook is an absolute exemplar of how to hold power to account and I think we're seeing the change in real time on his podcast with Rory Stewart. When she's not podcasting,  Rachel is a climate corruption journalist who investigates why the world is in crisis—and what to do about it.  With world exclusives in major papers, Rachel investigates the gaslighting which props up our broken systems.  She travels the world talking on - and off - the record to heads of government and oil industry executives, to the people who make our current system tick and who are often just as afraid as we are about the direction and speed of travel towards the edge of the extinction cliff. Rachel has an almost unique insight into the nature of the systemic catastrophe we've built for ourselves and therefore of the ways we might address it. This was a bracing conversation. There are no easy answers and I had some of my rosier tinted lenses broken along the way.  But in the end we came to the place we often get to with this podcast - that building communities of place, purpose and passion where we value each other, and our capacity to love bravely is what might - perhaps - bring us to the emergent edge of inter-becoming that Indy Johar spoke of a few weeks ago. So brace yourselves, this is not an easy podcast, but we need to know where we're at so we can let go - again - ever more completely  - of our assumptions about business as usual and do whatever we can, wherever we are, to be that emergent edge. Planet: Critical podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/planet-critical/id1545009586Planet: Critical website https://www.planetcritical.com/Rachel on Twitter https://twitter.com/CrisisReportsRachel on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-donald/Diem25 - Democracy in Europe Movement https://diem25.org/en/

Guest: Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece, the co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement), and the author of several books including The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy, Adults In the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment, Talking To My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism, and his latest, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present.   The post KPFA Special: Yanis Varoufakis on Inflation and the Economic Imbalances of the World appeared first on KPFA.

Dr. Varoufakis is a Greek economist and politician who attained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Dr. Varoufakis is the founder and secretary-general of the European Realistic Disobedience Front, a progressive leftward party, which is part of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. He served as Greek Finance Minister in 2015 and is a current member of the Greek Parliament. Dr. Varoufakis explained his critique of Capital in the 21st Century, by Thomas Piketty, why mainstream economic frameworks ignore inequality, and how Piketty's solution to alleviating poverty falls short. To check out more of our content, including our research, visit our website: https://www.hgsss.org/

This week I'm honoured to be joined again by economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis. Yanis served as the Greek Minister of Finance for the first half of 2015, and in February of the following year launched the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025  (DiEM25). He is an incredible voice on The Left who fights with passion for a better and more fair world. I wished to speak with Yanis in light of the current conflict in Ukraine. I wanted to know what insight Yanis might have on the types of resolutions that could be proposed, his opinion on what is happening, and why it's happening, and what we need to do going forward. It's a very important and moving conversation and I would like to hear your thoughts on it, too.Please email us hello@russellbrand.com with "Under The Skin" in the subject heading.More Info:Yanis Varoufakis's Work: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.euMy meditation podcast, Above the Noise, is out now, only on Luminary. I release guided meditations every Wednesday. Please check it out: http://luminary.link/meditateElites are taking over! Our only hope is to form our own. To learn more join my cartel here https://www.russellbrand.com/join and get weekly bulletins too incendiary for anything but your private inbox. (*not a euphemism)Subscribe to my YouTube channel, I post four videos a week including video clips from these episodes!  https://www.youtube.com/russellbrandSubscribe to my YouTube side-channel for more wellness and spirituality: https://www.youtube.com/c/AwakeningWithRussellInstagram:http://instagram.com/russellbrand/Twitter: http://twitter.com/rustyrockets

This week I'm honoured to be joined again by economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis. Yanis served as the Greek Minister of Finance for the first half of 2015, and in February of the following year launched the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025  (DiEM25). He is an incredible voice on The Left who fights with passion for a better and more fair world. I wished to speak with Yanis in light of the current conflict in Ukraine. I wanted to know what insight Yanis might have on the types of resolutions that could be proposed, his opinion on what is happening, and why it's happening, and what we need to do going forward. It's a very important and moving conversation and I would like to hear your thoughts on it, too. Please email us hello@russellbrand.com with "Under The Skin" in the subject heading. More Info: Yanis Varoufakis's Work: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu My meditation podcast, Above the Noise, is out now, only on Luminary. I release guided meditations every Wednesday. Please check it out: http://luminary.link/meditate Elites are taking over! Our only hope is to form our own. To learn more join my cartel here https://www.russellbrand.com/join and get weekly bulletins too incendiary for anything but your private inbox. (*not a euphemism) Subscribe to my YouTube channel, I post four videos a week including video clips from these episodes!  https://www.youtube.com/russellbrand Subscribe to my YouTube side-channel for more wellness and spirituality: https://www.youtube.com/c/AwakeningWithRussell Instagram: http://instagram.com/russellbrand/ Twitter:  http://twitter.com/rustyrockets

Yanis Varoufakis is the former Finance Minister of Greece, professor of economics at the University of Athens, co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement, and member of the Greek Parliament. The Guardian describes him as "a motorcycling, leather jacketed former academic and self-styled rebel who took pleasure in winding up the besuited political class." He calls himself an "erratic Marxist," and has written economics textbooks, a memoir, and popular explainers of economic ideas. But now he has produced a novel: Another Now: Dispatches From an Alternative Present. Another Now is not a typical work of fiction. It is a novel of ideas, more like one of Plato's dialogues than an airport potboiler. Varoufakis draws on the tradition of leftist utopian fiction seen in 19th century works like William Morris' News From Nowhere and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Those books tried to show readers a plausible depiction of what a socialist society might look like. In Another Now, Varoufakis is doing something similar: he shows us what our existing 21st century world might look like if the economy operated very differently and capitalism was done away with. He imagines a different timeline in which Occupy Wall Street had won and Wall Street itself had been consigned to the dustbin of history.But it's not quite right to describe this work as "utopian." Varoufakis is trying to do something extremely pragmatic: to show, using his academic training in finance and economics, that things that seem impossible are actually quite technically feasible. The attack on socialists generally is that their schemes are unworkable, and that without big banks and a class of wealthy capitalists, there could not be a dynamic, innovative economy. Varoufakis uses this story to show that this isn't true, and to explain in detail the concrete workings of a possible post-capitalist economy.If you're not used to novels that contain long descriptions of alternative banking systems, Another Now may be a challenging read. But it's exciting because it tries to seriously answer the question: "What would a realistic alternative to the capitalist economy look like?" In Varoufakis' "other now," the fruits of society's labor are not owned by capitalists, but by the people who do the work. There is some inequality, but there is a "democratic economy" in which corporate tyranny has been eradicated. Banks are public, not private, and poverty is eliminated. It is said that these days, the cramping of our imaginations has meant that it is "easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." Varoufakis invites us to imagine the end of capitalism in our own time. The medium of fiction has allowed Varoufakis to include characters who are highly skeptical about whether this economy is possible, and who have to be convinced over time to believe in it. Another Now wants to speak to critics of the socialist project, and to show that the seemingly most insurmountable obstacles to eliminating capitalism (maintaining innovation and incentives, financing new projects, etc.) are actually easily solved problems. The most substantial difficulty is the creation of a political movement with the power to bring the necessary changes about.Another Now poses a serious challenge to capitalist dogma and offers an inspiring vision that should energize the left. In this conversation, Varoufakis and Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson discuss the novel and why a well-functioning socialist economy is more feasible than people assume. Warning: it gets a little bit heavy on the economics and it may be useful to read up on the history of the socialist calculation debate before diving in. The phrase "Astonishingly, There Is An Alternative!" is taken from Another Now, where it is a counterpoint to Margaret Thatcher's infamous dictum "There Is No Alternative."The interview Nathan did with the authors of People's Republic of Walmart is available here. 

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Yanis Varoufakis, the author of “Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present”, to paint the picture of a world where a global hi-tech uprising has birthed a post-capitalist society in which work, money, land, digital networks and politics have been truly democratised. Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and politician who, as Greece's finance minister in 2015, led the struggle against the European Union's and the International Monetary Fund's austerity and bank bailout policies. Since then he co-founded DiEM25 (the Democracy in Europe Movement) and is the leader of MeRA25, DiEM25's political party in Greece. Before his election to Greece's Parliament, Varoufakis taught economics in universities in Britain, Australia, the United States and Greece for three decades. He holds a chair in economic theory at the University of Athens and is Honorary Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Honoris Causa Professor of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Torino, Visiting Professor of Political Economy at King's College, London, and Doctor of the University Honoris Causa at the University of Sussex. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a.keen@me.com Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankeen/ Watch the show live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lithub Watch the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiteraryHub/videos Subscribe to Andrew's newsletter: https://andrew2ec.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We spoke with Srećko Horvat, a philosopher, activist and cofounder of the Democracy in Europe Movement, DiEM 25, where he is currently leading many activities as a member of the coordinating collective. We discussed DiEM25's work, the media outlet they launched at the start of the pandemic, and Srećko's latest book, After the Apocalypse. Music by Commodore1983: https://soundcloud.com/commodore1983

Join Haymarket Books, Jacobin, and the Debt Collective for a discussion of how to build the movement for debt abolition! ---------------------------------------------------- Emboldened by the election of Joe Biden and the continued crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Debt Collective has renewed its call for the new president to cancel all student debt during his first 100 days in office. Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go to school, or even to pay for our own incarceration. We've been told there is no way to change an economy that pushes the majority of people into debt while a small minority hoard wealth and power. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed that mass indebtedness and extreme inequality are a political choice. In the early days of the crisis, elected officials drew up plans to spend trillions of dollars. The only question was: where would the money go and who would benefit from the bailout? The truth is that there has never been a lack of money for things like housing, education and health care. Millions of people never needed to be forced into debt for those things in the first place. Armed with this knowledge, a militant debtors movement has the potential to rewrite the contract and assure that no one has to mortgage their future to survive. Debtors of the World Must Unite. As isolated individuals, debtors have little influence. But as a bloc, we can leverage our debts and devise new tactics to challenge the corporate creditor class and help win reparative, universal public goods. Individually, our debts overwhelm us. But together, our debts can make us powerful. ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Hannah Appel is a Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at UCLA and a political organizer. She is the author, most recently, of The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea, and serves as the Associate Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, where she leads the Future of Finance research stream. She is co-founder of the Debt Collective, a union for debtors, and a writers bloc member for Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition. David Adler is a politic economist from Los Angeles whose work focuses on the politics of internationalism. He currently serves as the General Coordinator of the Progressive International, founded in May 2020 to unite, organize, and mobilize progressive forces around the world. Previously, he served as foreign policy advisor to the Bernie Sanders campaign, policy director of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), and was the co-founder of its Green New Deal for Europe campaign. Micah Uetricht is the deputy editor of Jacobin and host of Jacobin Radio's podcast The Vast Majority. He is the author of Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity and coauthor of Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism. ---------------------------------------------------- Order a copy of Can't Pay Won't Pay: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1520-can-t-pay-won-t-pay Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/EpxMusEuirA Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

I talk with Srećko Horvat - author, philosopher, and cofounder of of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) - about the myths of our current crisis, how to break free from them, and why the occult matters for leftist politics.

I’m joined by returning guest David Adler of the Democracy in Europe Movement to discuss how Europe has risen—or failed to rise—to the challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. David offers his thoughts on the lack of collective action within Europe and what it might mean for the eurozone and the European Union moving forward, as well as some ideas for improving European institutions.David’s Guardian piece (co-authored with Jerome Roos), which we reference in the interview, can be found here. You can also follow him on Twitter. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at fx.substack.com/subscribe

Bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis (And the Weak Suffer What They Must?, Talking to My Daughter) and rock-star economist shares his forward-thinking views on the challenges facing European democracy and the universal truths they tell about the state of global politics in conversation with George Megalogenis. After entering politics during the Greek financial crisis in 2015, Yanis quickly became one of the most relevant and radical political figures of our times. The former Greek finance minister and self-described ‘libertarian Marxist’ is globally recognised for his progressive politics and divisive opinions on democracy, liberty and capitalism – and his excoriating attacks on the international economic establishment. In 2016, Yanis took on the growing far-right movement in Europe by co-founding the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). The pan-European cross-border group offers “European solutions to European problems” from debt to poverty, and tackles toxic nationalism and xenophobia. The group was elected into Greek parliament in July 2019.

How much did you pay for the clothes in your closet? If you have the receipts, you can calculate this. However, there is a cost behind each dress, pair of jeans, shirt, and sock that goes unnoticed by most people: the cost to the environment. Guests: Srećko Horvat, philospher, author and activist. Co-founder of DiEM25 (The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025) together with former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. Advocate for Green New Deal in Europe. Vladimir Đurđević, Professor of Meteorology at the Faculty of Physics in Belgrade. His research areas are numerical modeling of climate and geophysical processes, the impact of climate change on man and nature and adaptation to those changes, climate projections and the impact of climate change on the economy. Language: Serbian

David Adler of the Democracy in Europe Movement and the University of Washington’s Daniel Bessner join me to discuss the US dollar’s global influence and how that it with the more overtly military aspects of Empire USA. Their recent The New Republic piece is called “To End Forever War, End the Dollar’s Global Dominance.” Enjoy! This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at fx.substack.com/subscribe

DEBATE | Erik Edman - Claire Fox - René Cuperus - Dave Sinardet - Jacob Reynolds The rise of populism in Europe in recent years and the UK's vote in 2016 to leave the European Union have prompted many to question if the EU can survive. Recently, however, there's been renewed optimism about the prospects for reforming the EU. Increased voter turnout and a ‘green wave' of support for pro-EU environmentalist parties in the 2019 European Parliament elections are cited as evidence of renewal. Eurosceptic, nationalist and populist parties performed below expectations, while pro-EU liberal and social-democratic parties did better than expected. Afterwards, some argued that the EU had renewed legitimacy. Perhaps more surprising is a reluctance among Eurosceptic parties to push for a break with the EU. As one commentary put it, ‘instead of promising to protect people from the European Union, populists have started promising to make the EU protect the people'. In 2016, at least 15 parties across Europe campaigned for a referendum on their country's EU membership. Yet today, populists in countries such as France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany now seem focused on securing change from within the EU. Italy's deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, captured the new mood by promoting the idea of a ‘Common-Sense Europe': not an end to the EU, but a changed EU, one that focuses more on security, manages immigration more closely and takes a ‘nation first' approach to the economy. What accounts for these shifts and how significant are they? The UK's protracted struggle to leave the EU certainly seems to demonstrate the difficulties confronting a state seeking to exit the bloc. Has the Brexit saga, and Greece's failed attempt in 2015 to resist EU/eurozone tutelage, dealt a fatal blow to the idea of restoring national sovereignty? Many still question the viability of ‘remain and reform' and whether it is possible to democratise the EU. For example, the Spitzenkandidat system of nominating and electing the new Commission president dissolved when party groupings were ignored, and appointments emerged via behind closed-doors discussions within the Council of Ministers. Nevertheless, Yanis Varoufakis of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 believes that, through creating a citizen-oriented New Deal for Europe, the EU can become a democratic force for good. Would, for example, allowing the European Parliament to propose laws mean that MEPs become more important to the people who elect them? The Democracy in Europe Movement won little electoral support in the countries in which it stood. Does this suggest that few believe in the possibility of reforming the EU? Or, alternatively, that few see the need for reform as a priority? Is the EU ‘an empire in decay', as some allege? Can a case be made for the idea of ‘remain and reform' and for an evolved, more democratic EU in which nation states function democratically? deburen.eu/programma/4952/brexit-of-remain-and-reform

Yanis Varoufakis is the leftist former Greek finance minister who tried and failed to end austerity. Like him or loathe him, Varoufakis is worth a look ahead of EU elections where centrists are struggling to compete with the far right’s clear and simple, if deceptive, messages. After a brief and tumultuous term in office, Varoufakis created the Democracy in Europe Movement, DiEM25. Varoufakis wants DiEM25 to win seats in the European Parliament to save the continent from what he sees as twin enemies: the Brussels establishment and far right ultra-nationalists. Critics point out that by creating his own movement, Varoufakis may further splinter the European left when it needs to be united against the far right, which appears in the ascendant. Varoufakis has found allies among a motley but enthusiastic crew: cerebral artists and musicians like Brian Eno; philosophers and intellectuals who name-drop Heidegger and Arendt at political rallies; and activists like Pamela Anderson, the ex-Playboy model and Baywatch star. We go on the trail of Varoufakis and his movement with Eleni Varvitsioti, the Greek journalist who has covered her country’s crises in masterful detail for Skai TV and the newspaper Kathimerini. Please visit our website for episode art and more EU Scream. “Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125” by Papalin is licensed under CC by 3.0. “Airside No. 9” is played by Lara Natale.Support the show (https://euscream.com/donate/)

On today's episode of rabble radio, we're discussing the Progressive International movement, a budding network of social movements, activists, and political organizers around the world who are linking up local struggles with an international vision to rebuild a progressive world order. Progressive International is working towards a vision of a world built around a shared progressive values of solidarity, prosperity, and equity. The movement was launched in November 2018 at the Sanders Institute in Vermont. On today's program, rabble's Assistant Editor Sophia Reuss interviews NDP MP Niki Ashton. She was at the initial launch of the Progressive International, and spoke on a panel with former Greek Finance Minister and leader of the Democracy in Europe Movement, DiEM25. Yanis Varoufakis, as well as U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, and other prominent progressive figures. Image: Matt Jiggins/Flickr Help make rabble sustainable. Please consider supporting our work with a monthly donation. Support rabble.ca today for as little as $1 per month!

On Saturday, Dan was in New York to interview Fernando Haddad and Yanis Varoufakis. Haddad is the former Workers Party mayor of São Paulo who recently lost Brazil's presidential election to far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. Varoufakis was the Greek Finance minister who tried and failed to fight the Troika's imposition of austerity and today is a leader of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. Unsurprisingly, their topic was the fight against right-wing populism. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

On Saturday, Dan was in New York to interview Fernando Haddad and Yanis Varoufakis. Haddad is the former Workers Party mayor of São Paulo who recently lost Brazil's presidential election to far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. Varoufakis was the Greek Finance minister who tried and failed to fight the Troika's imposition of austerity and today is a leader of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. Unsurprisingly, their topic was the fight against right-wing populism. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

In his eye-opening memoir, Adults in the Room, Varoufakis, Greece’s former Finance Minister, recounts his frustrating struggle to resolve Greece’s debt crisis without resorting to austerity measures. His book give us a valuable inside look at discussions with officials of the European Union and International Monetary Fund as well as with policy makers in Washington and other capitals. Founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, an international grassroots organization dedicated to restoring democracy to Europe, Varoufakis as a father is all too aware of the legacy today’s fraught economic policies will leave to the next generation. Couched as a series of fatherly letters, Talking to My Daughter about the Economy is an accessible primer on the history, elements, ideals, and problems of economics, including issues of inequality, climate change, and the chronic risk of global instability.https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780374538057https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780374272364Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Volksabstimmung hier, Umfragen dort, das Grundeinkommen – manchmal soll es bedingungslos sein – ist in aller Munde. Auch Yanis Varoufakis, der Wirtschaftsprofessor, Autor, Gründer von Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) und ehemaliger griechischer Finanzminister hat eine Position zum Grundeinkommen. Weshalb er ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen heute als Notwendigkeit betrachtet, legt er in einem Interview mit dem Gottlieb Duttweiller Institute dar. Seine Argumente berücksichtigen eine sozialökonomische, philosophische und moralische Makroperspektive. Hören Sie die Übersetzung von acTVism munich:

Gut ein Jahr ist es her, dass der frühere griechische Finanzminister Yanis Varoufakis und der Philosoph und Aktivisten Srećko Horvat das Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 begründet haben. Am 25. Mai wurde in der Volksbühne in Berlin etwas Handfestes vorgelegt, der sogenannte “European New Deal”. Dieser Plan soll helfen die wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Probleme in der Europäische Union zu lösen und vor allem eine Alternative zur aktuellen Austeritätspolitik sein. Laut DiEM25 schürte sie den Aufstieg der „internationalen Nationalisten“. Die Veranstaltung in Berlin zog hunderte von Menschen unterschiedlichster Herkunft von überall in Europa an und umfasste Workshops, Podiumsdiskussionen und ein breites Spektrum an Grassroots-Aktivisten. Ein Beitrag von acTVism munich über den „European New Deal“, den die paneuropäischen Demokratiebewegung DiEM 2025 Bewegung als Alternative zur aktuellen Austeritätspolitik sieht.

In Polen versucht die PiS-Regierung die Demokratie immer weiter auszuhöhlen. Neben dem Kampf gegen das Verfassungsgericht, sollten Anfang des Jahres auch die Arbeitsbedingungen für Journalisten beschnitten werden. Wie schwierig es ist, Kritik zu äußern, weiß auch Slaromir Schierakowski. Der polnischer Publizist, Soziologe und Kopf der Bewegung Krytyka Polityczna (Politische Kritik) gilt als einer der wichtigsten Intellektuellen, die sich immer wieder zu Wort melden. So auch bei der Gründung von DiEM25, dem Democracy in Europe Movement vor einem Jahr.

Entweder Europa demokratisiert sich, oder es zerbricht – steht als Motto über der Bewegung DiEM 25, dem Democracy in Europe Movement. Ein demokratisiertes Europa ist auch ein unabhängiges Europa, unabhängig vom großen Bruder im Westen. Der Whistleblower Jakob (Jake) Applebaum gehört neben Edward Snowden und Julian Assange zu den prominentesten Datenschutz- und Anti-Überwachungsaktivisten weltweit. Appelbaum ist US-amerikanischer freier Journalist und Spezialist für Computersicherheit. Jakob Appelbaum zeichnete in Berlin die Geschichte der Überwachung nach. Sprecher: Andi Königsmann Übersetzung: Inga Häckl

Am Schauspiel Köln führte Angela Richter Regie bei der Erarbeitung des Stücks "Supernerds", eine Auseinandersetzung mit der digitalen Überwachung und digitalen Dissidenten. Sie ist bekannt mit Edward Snowden und befreundet mit Julian Assange. Sie spricht auch auf der Gründung der Europäischen Demokratiebewegung DiEM 25 - Democracy in Europe Movement: Übersetzung: Inga Häckl Sprecherin: Saskia Haisch

Stephen Sackur talks to Brian Eno, the hugely influential contemporary music maker once styled the ‘brainiest guy in pop' – except the word ‘pop' does not really fit. Briefly a member of Roxy Music in the early '70s, he then went his own way, creating ambient music, developing audio-visual installations and collaborating with a host of big names including Bowie, U2 and Coldplay. His output has been prolific and varied, but what is he? A musician, a composer, or an artist impossible to label?(Photo: British musician and activist Brian Eno speaks at the the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), 2016, Berlin. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Ce soir, le tout jeune mouvement DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe - Movement - 2025) vient faire sa première radio dans les studios de Radio Campus Paris ! Le mouvement est européen, Cristina Savini Soler, sa représentante en plateau, est membre de la branche française du parti.    Né le 9 février dernier sous l'impulsion de Yanis Varoufakis (ex-ministre des finances du gouvernement grec de Syriza), il regroupe des adhérents très différents, mais principalement des jeunes (étudiants) et des anciens des Verts. Plus qu'un parti politique, il s'agit d'un mouvement travaillant à un projet collectif commun pour une Union Européenne plus transparente et plus démocratique, présenté dans son manifeste.   Elle expose dans l'émission les 4 étapes pour « redonner son âme à l'Europe », dont une pétition qui réclame entre autres la publication de la liste des lobbyistes présents à Bruxelles, et la retransmission en direct des réunions du Conseil Européen et de l'Eurogroup.    « Soit l'Union Européenne se démocratise, soit elle se désintégrera. »     Sommes-nous en Etat d'urgence culturel ? Nicolas Roméas, directeur de la revue Cassandre/Hors Champs, et Coline Merlo, membre de la rédaction, viennent nous répondre, et pour eux, oui, il est temps de remettre la culture au centre du débat collectif.    Et elle se sera samedi prochain, lors d'une soirée autour de la notion de « culture » organisée par la revue, qui rassemblera des gens de tout horizon (mimes, musiciens, sociologues) pour des débats et discussions, au Théâtre de l'Epée de bois à la Cartoucherie de Vincennes. Dans la même veine que la revue Cassandre/Hors Champs, qui a pour but d'envisager une culture plus libre et démocratique, ou celle-ci prendrait plus de place dans notre société. Ainsi les deux invités nous présentent leur idée sur le sujet, intimement lié à la société et à la politique.    « Ce qui se génère à l'intérieur d'une oeuvre d'art est en prise avec des phénomènes sociaux et politiques »     Reportage ce soir, réalisé par Manon, autour de l'importance des réseaux sociaux pour le mouvement libre Nuit Debout qui se tient toujours place de la République à Paris, et dans de nombreuses villes de France.   Chronique santé enfin, pour finir l'émission sur une pointe scientifique, avec Guillaume qui vous parle de l'influence néfaste des crèmes solaires sur les spermatozoïdes. Avec, forcément, un quizz final   Présentation : Thibaud Texeire / Réalisation : Jinnie Jung et Maxime Fassiotti / Co-interview : Manon Derdevet et Léa Signe/ Reportage : Manon Derdevet / Chronique : Guillaume Gonçalves / Coordination : Elsa Landard et Camille Regache / Web : Lune Bourgogne

Eutropolis er i denne uge klar med en podcast, der tager fat i et af de helt store spørgsmål omkring EU-samarbejdet – nemlig hvorvidt EU har et demokratisk underskud, og om man kan gøre noget ved det. Det gør vi, fordi den tidligere græske finansminister Yanis Varoufakis den 9. februar lancerede et stort opslået EU-demokratiseringsprojekt med bevægelsen Democracy in Europe Movement. Bevægelsen både kritiseres og støttes på grund af Varoufakis ønske om et opgør med systemet, som vi kender det i dag. Men har Varoufakis overhovedet noget nyt at bringe ind i diskussionen om EU’s legitimitet, og er det overhovedet muligt at satse på mere demokrati i et Europa, som i stigende grad begrænses af bureaukratiske rammer og nationalistisk mistillid? Lyt med - og deltag selv i diskussionen!

Hoy hablamos sobre DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement 2025), la iniciativa política y económica abanderada por Yanis Varoufakis, y profundizamos en los contenidos de la propuesta con la sana intención de ir más allá de la mera anécdota con la que los medios de comunicación patrio parecen haberse conformado. Con Vicente Ríos, Jordi Llanos y Jesús Nácher. Conduce Chus Marcano. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Volgende week presenteert Yanis Varoufakis, de voormalige Griekse minister van Financiën, een pan-Europese linkse tegenbeweging in Berlijn. De Democracy in Europe Movement 2015 (afgekort DiEM 25) moet een 'Plan B' voor Europa gaan formuleren. Volgens hen moet de Europese Unie drastisch democratiseren, wil het niet uit elkaar vallen. Te gast is financieel geograaf Ewald Engelen.