Posts tagged: eurozone

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part Three: How Tsipras and Varoufakis turned their backs on Syriza’s platform

  In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. In the third part of a series of articles analyzing the book, Eric Toussaint traces how Varoufakis influenced Tsipras to abandon the economic policies of the Syriza programme once in government. 

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part Two: Surprising Relations with the Political Class

  In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. In part two of a series of articles analyzing the book, Eric Toussaint examines Varoufakis's questionable account of the origins of the crisis and his coziness with the Greek political class. 

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  Constructing a Common Language: A conversation with Razmig Keucheyan

  Keucheyan discusses environmental inequality, the past and present of the workers' movement, populism, and the relationship between strategy and theory. 

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part One: Proposals Doomed to Fail

  In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. This article by Eric Toussaint of CADTM — the first in a series — examines the first four chapters, which deal with the proposals Varoufakis made before he became a member of the government.

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  Chantal Mouffe: "We urgently need to promote a left-populism"

  In an interview, Chantal Mouffe explains her conception of left-populism.

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  Country for Old Men

  Youth grievance was a major part of the 59 per cent vote that forced the resignation of Italy's former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in December 2016. Crankish remarks by the Democratic Party’s labour minister about young people leaving the country reflect the often gerontocratic codes of Italian public life, but they also drew political debate back onto one of the country’s defining social ills.

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  [Video] Pablo Iglesias and Perry Anderson on the conjuncture in Spain

  A wide-ranging conversation between Perry Anderson and Pablo Iglesias, on Spain's past and present, and the role of Podemos, set in the larger European context. 

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  When I Think of France

• [Audio]: Frédéric Lordon and Cédric Durand discuss Internationalism and Democracy after the Eurozone Crisis

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  Lapavitsas: "The left is paying the price for its conservative discourse on the currency union."

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  Abandoning the Euro Could Help Save Europe

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  The Ignored Lessons of the Financial Crisis