DiEM25 Ελλάδας
My Berlin speech on Palestine that German police entered the venue to ban – and whose publication here led to my being banned from Germany!
, 13/04/2024
Watch/read the speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style) before I could address the meeting. Today, because I dared publish this speech here, the Ministry of Interior issued a “Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not just a […]
Our defeat in context: Greece’s Erdogan-isation is almost complete
, 22/05/2023
The people spoke. Unlike in 2019, when MeRA25 won nine seats in Greece’s Parliament, in yesterday’s election we failed to clear the 3% hurdle, thus, electing no MPs. However, this freshly minted Parliament was condemned before it got a chance to convene. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the conservative party leader, who won handsomely, is about to dissolve […]
What to do about the Parthenon Marbles – interviewed by Michael Portillo
, 25/04/2023
Following my article in Unherd about the Parthenon Marbles, Michael Portillo interviewed me on the subject for GB News.
Europe’s latest illiberal democracy: Greece! – New Statesman
, 24/03/2023
“Like lambs to the slaughter” was how an elderly neighbour described the deaths of youngsters travelling on Intercity 62 which, on the night of 28 February, crashed head-on with a freight train in Greece killing 57 people. Many of the dead were students returning after a long weekend from Athens to their universities in Thessaloniki. […]
On the shameful deal Osborne-Mitsotakis are hammering out over the Parthenon antiquities – UNHERD
, 24/03/2023
From the very beginning, Elgin’s removal of the Parthenon’s statues and friezes caused something of a discursive British civil war. On one side were humanists, like Lord Byron; on the other were Empire apologists, who defend Elgin’s actions and support the British Museum’s inalienable property rights to the artefacts it, eventually, purchased from him. Over […]
The Greek Watergate – UNHERD
, 23/09/2022
Nothing surprises me more than politicians professing to be surprised that their phones have been tapped. In the world revealed to us by Edward Snowden almost a decade ago, no phone is beyond the reach of motivated eavesdroppers. This is not to say, however, that phone-tapping political opponents has lost its capacity to poison democracy. […]
Μελανή μέρα για την Βρετανική Δικαιοσύνη
, 10/12/2021
Με την απόφασή του υπέρ της έκδοσης του Τζούλιαν Ασανζ στις ΗΠΑ, το Ανώτατο Δικαστηρίο της Βρετανίας έχασε μοναδική ευκαιρία να διασώσει την τιμή και την υπόληψη της Βρετανικής δικαιοσύνης μετά από τόσα χρόνια συνενοχής της στην προσπάθεια εξόντωσης, δολοφονίας ουσιαστικά, ενός ανθρώπου του οποίου το μόνο «έγκλημα» ήταν να μας διαφωτίσει για τα εγκλήματα […]
My farewell to Mikis Theodorakis – Der Freitag
, 09/09/2021
I must have been 6 or 7 years-old when I got whiff of the significance of Theodorakis’ music. It was around 1968 when my parents warned me not to tell anyone at school or in the neighbourhood that they owned records of his – and certainly not to admit that we listened to them. “Even […]
Central bank independence is a myth. What about green central banking? – op-ed in Green Central Banking
, 10/07/2021
Last week the ECB announced its new policy of ‘going green’. How can a conventional central bank do this? Only by discriminating against bonds and equities issued by companies damaging the environment that it accepts as collateral, or which it buys, in return for loans ‘greening’ its purchase/acceptance policy. Is ‘green central banking’ a move […]
Open Letter to Joe Biden by 95 Greek MPs: “Drop all charges against Julian Assange!”
, 07/07/2021
As part of the international mobilisation to apply pressure on the US government to end the persecution of Julian Assange, MeRA25 invited members of Greece’s Parliament to co-sign the letter below, addressed to President Biden. The letter reminds the US President that, as Obama’s Vice-President, he took the decision not to prosecute Julian. Indeed, the […]
Ποιός φοβάται τον Τζούλιαν Ασάνζ; Κε Μπάιντεν, γιατί επιμένετε στον αργό του θάνατο;
, 03/07/2021
Ο καλός μου φίλος Τζούλιαν συνεχίζει να σιγοπεθαίνει στο κελί του στα βάθη του Βρετανικού Γκουαντάναμο, θύμα αδίστακτων Δυτικών κυβερνώντων αποφασισμένων να ρουφήξουν λίγο-λίγο την ζωή μέσα από το κορμί του έτσι ώστε να αποτρέψουν άλλες και άλλους από το να αποκαλύψουν άβολες για την ολιγαρχία αλήθειες. To DiEM25-MέΡΑ25, κίνημα του οποίου ο Τζούλιαν είναι […]
The legislative comeback of patriarchal misogyny: Greek government passes compulsory joint custody legislation – video
, 22/05/2021
Perhaps the greatest achievement of Greek progressives during the past four decades was the 1983 Family Law . It jolted Greece from the Dark Ages and, quite astonishingly, ushered in a legal framework regarding marriage, divorce and custody that was far ahead of its time, even when compared to the most progressive countries at the […]
mέta – DiEM25’s & MeRA25’s Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation premiers tonight, 13th May, at 19.00CET
, 12/05/2021
Imagine the world anew, together. Thursday 13 May 2021, at 19.00CET (17.00GMT, 20.00 Athens time), streaming at mέta’s YouTube channel and at facebook.com/meta.cpc. Through a sequence of intensifying crises, capitalism has already morphed into a dystopian postmodern, hi-tech version of feudalism. Postcapitalism is, thus, already here. Through art and research, argument and poetry, mέta, the […]
Greece’s slide to parliamentary dictatorship – video
, 28/01/2021
My statement in the Greek parliament after MeRA25 MP Aggeliki Adamopolou was shockingly stripped of her Parliamentary immunity for daring to criticise the police in a speech she gave in Parliament. Greece is now a dictatorship under parliamentary cloak.
Γερμανοί, Έλληνες & Τούρκοι μέλη του DiEM25 εναντίον εξορύξεων, εξοπλισμών & εντάσεων και υπέρ της Ειρήνης & της Πράσινης Κοινής Ευημερίας
, 30/07/2020
Πρόκειται για παρέμβαση του DiEM25 (αναπόσπαστο μέρος του οποίου είναι το ΜέΡΑ25) που κάνει όλους εμάς που, από τον Φλεβάρη του 2016, παλεύουμε να χτίσουμε αυτό το μοναδικό, ενιαίο, διεθνικό κίνημα να νιώθουμε βαθιά περήφανοι. Φέρνοντας μαζί, ως μέλη του ίδιου κινήματος, μέλη και οργανώσεις μας από την Γερμανία, την Ελλάδα ΚΑΙ την Τουρκία, η […]
DiEM25 organisations from Germany, Greece & Turkey on Peace & Shared Green Prosperity, instead of War Games & Oil-Gas Drilling, in the Eastern Mediterranean
, 30/07/2020
Deeply proud of DiEM25’s intervention to avert tensions in the E. Mediterranean. Proving there is no clash between nations, DiEM25’s organisations in Germany, Greece & Turkey issued a manifesto for splendid Peace & Shared Green Prosperity in our region: The perpetrators of war, the profiteers of the fossil fuel industry and political leaders wedded to […]
Ούτε Πόλεμος Ούτε Συνεκμετάλλευση – Ειρήνη, Συνεργασία & Πράσινη Κοινή Ευημερία: Οι θέσεις του ΜέΡΑ25 & του DiEM25 για την Ειρήνη και την Κοινή Πράσινη Ευημερία στην Αν. Μεσόγειο
, 30/07/2020
Πρόσφατα γιορτάσαμε την 46η Επέτειο από την Αποκατάσταση της Δημοκρατίας. Το ΜέΡΑ25 τόνισε, με την ευκαιρία της επετείου, ότι οι Έλληνες δημοκράτες έχουμε υποχρέωση να μην ξεχνάμε πως επέστρεψε η Δημοκρατία στην Ελλάδα: Ως απόρροια της Κυπριακής τραγωδίας που έφεραν εθνικιστικές επιλογές ενός ξενοκίνητου ελληνικού καθεστώτος που άνοιξε διάπλατα την πόρτα στην Κατοχή της Βόρειας […]
MeRA25: One year in Parliament
, 09/07/2020
In less than a year, MeRA25’s our parliamentary group has proven “your voice in parliament” They have attended all parliamentary proceedings and articulated profound, substantive and creative opposition! MeRA25’s parliamentary group has notably: Tabled more than 850 questions in the context of Parliamentary Control of the Government Submitted concrete proposals on a number of articles […]
Covid-19 has “turbocharged” the EU’s failures – Interviewed by the NEW STATESMAN’s George Eaton
, 12/05/2020
For Yanis Varoufakis, lockdown has not been a time of contemplation. “I have more work now than I ever did. As you know, everything has shifted to Zoom meetings, which means zero separation between the private and the public,” he explained when we spoke recently, during one such video call. The 59-year-old economist, former Greek […]
Ευχές για λυτρωτικό Πάσχα – ΒΙΝΤΕΟ
, 16/04/2020
Μεγάλη Πέμπτη σήμερα. Μια εβδομάδα ακριβώς αφού η κυβέρνηση, με την εκούσια ανυπαρξία της στο Eurogroup, συνθηκολόγησε στο 5ο Μνημόνιο – το 5ο Μνημόνιο του οποίου η φαρμακερή λιτότητα του χρόνου θα πλήξει ένα ήδη λαβωμένο λαό ακριβώς την ώρα που θα πασχίζει να γιατρέψει τις πληγές του μετά τον εγκλεισμό και τη νέα οικονομική κατάρρευση. Έρχονται μέρες χαλεπές για τον Λαό, […]
“The European Union Is Determined to Continue Making the Same Errors It Made After 2008” – JACOBIN interview
, 12/04/2020
The lack of EU help for the states hardest hit by COVID-19 is the latest sign of the hollowness of “European solidarity.” As Yanis Varoufakis tells Jacobin, the European Union’s institutions are hardwired to ignore the needs of the social majority — preferring to allow mass suffering than to change their own rules. Yanis Varoufakis is used […]
For a global movement with a radical agenda – long interview in THE HINDU (its FRONTLINE magazine)
, 08/04/2020
In this interview, the first to Indian media, Yanis speaks elaborately on the 2019 British election, Brexit, the E.U. crisis, the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the global financial crisis, rising ultra-national forces, the need for a progressive international movement, the DiEM25, rising inequality and the Greek crisis. How important is this year’s U.S. presidential election […]