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Is the world safer than it was in 2008? Ten Guardian writers think not
Yanis Varoufakis: Risk has not been diminished, just taken out of sight
Ten years after its near-death experience, capitalism is back to its old ways.
Our Progressive International movement will fight, at once, two authoritarianisms: The National International and the Financialised Globalists who paved the ground for them – Yanis Varoufakis & Bernie Sanders in THE GUARDIAN (13th September 2018)
YANIS VAROUFAKIS: Our new international movement will fight rising nationalism, its underlying fascist moment, and the pseudo-liberal establishment whose policies gave rise to it (Click here for The Guardian)
Lessons from 2008 for beyond 2018: Keynote this Friday 14th September at the OECD, Paris
Before 2008 we could all see that global trade imbalances were growing inexorably, creating a glut of savings in surplus countries that flowed into deficit countries, causing house price, stock exchange and debt bubbles whose bursting would never end well. What few could see, however, was that, behind the dominant narrative of unfettered competition and equilibrating market forces, a different reality was taking shape. Corporate power was succeeding in reducing price competition, usurping (and often replacing) market forces and controlling effective demand.
How should the Left approach Europe? Interviewed, along Manuel Bompard, by Jacobin (France)
The European Parliament elections will be a major battleground that the neofascist forces of the emergent Nationalist International (Salvini, Kurz, Orban, AfD, CSU, parts of the CDU, and of course figures like Donald Trump and Steve Bannon) will contest enthusiastically. DiEM25 and our EUROPEAN SPRING are determined to confront them on the basis of a radical europeanist agenda, building a Progressive Transnational/International Movement.
Im Reich der Gier – der Freitag
Mythos Der Kapitalismus ist entzaubert und bringt uns das größte Faschismusproblem seit den Dreißigern
Was im Herbst 2008 an der Wall Street geschah, hatten die allermeisten Menschen bis dahin für unmöglich gehalten, schließlich hatte man ihnen jahrelang weisgemacht, dass etwas Derartiges schlichtweg nicht passieren könnte. Es war, als ob man dabei zuguckt, wie die Sonne, kurz nachdem sie am Horizont aufgeht, komplett aus ihrer Bahn trudelt und abstürzt. Die Menschheit sah fassungslos zu.
Democracy, Socialism, Europe and Scottish Independence – four clips on STV
PART 1 – WHY SOCIALISM?
- Interviewer: You are meeting with Jeremy Corbyn to discuss socialism. Why?
- Varoufakis: Because democracy needs a healthy democratic socialist movement to be part of the political process in order to be healthy
PART 2 – REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL
PART 3 – DEMOCRATS MUST GET TOGETHER ACROSS PARTY POLITICAL AND NATIONAL BORDERLINES
PART 4 – THE SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE DILEMMA