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Why I campaign against Brexit – Business Insider

Click on the image above or hereFiled under: DiEM, Politics and Economics

GREECE’S ENDLESS LOOP OF DOOM – full version of New York Times op-ed

On 31st May 2016 the New York Times published the op-ed below (under a title that is unfortunate and not my choice). (For the NYT site, click here.) The version below is the original and contained graphs and data that could not be … Continue reading →

On BBC tv, discussing Brexit et al on the Andrew Marr show (29th May 2016)

 Filed under: DiEM, European Crisis, Politics and Economics

Brexit is an empire-era trick. Only the radical case for Europe makes sense – in The Guardian

‘Sovereignty is dear to our hearts. We reject the notion that Britain must settle for diminished sovereignty as the price of global influence.’  Referendums can throw up some odd bedfellows. But there is nothing odd about the company descending on … Continue reading →

On Australia’s economy – extensive interview in THE GUARDIAN

Click here for the interview with Gabrielle Jackson as published on THE GUARDIAN’s site. Or…  There are two seats to choose from: a deep, soft black-leather couch, or a red one that has the utilitarian look of a school chair. … Continue reading →

Royal Society of the Arts: Europe, Austerity & the Threat to Global Stability

Filed under: And the Weak Suffer What They Must? - the book, DiEM

Lecture on the occasion of the award of an Honorary Professorship in Political Economy, University of Sydney

‘Political Economy: The Social Sciences’ Red Pill’ This is the video recording of the event surrounding the appointment of Yanis Varoufakis as an Honorary Professor within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Many thanks to all the participants for making … Continue reading →

And the Weak Suffer what they Must? Review by Paul Tyson

This book is not just illuminating. It is a call to moral awakening and to intelligent, determined and humane political action.   (This review was published in opendemocracy.net) I would like to start this review by looking at Varoufakis’ writing … Continue reading →

Has consumerism milked democracy dry? On ABC Radio National

This conversation, on ABC RN’s ‘Minefield’, with Scott Stevens and Waleed Aly, was broadcast on 19th May 2016 – click here for the ABC’s website. Or… Despite dairy producers being battered by market forces, a ‘milk tax’ has reportedly been … Continue reading →

Talking Europe & Greece – VICE interview

The interview with Yohann Koshy (April 21, 2016) can be read on VICE’s site here. Otherwise… Like most of you, I have dreamt about Yanis Varoufakis. Greece’s Syriza government represented the first challenge to neoliberalism, within the established political field, in European history. … Continue reading →