Posts tagged: greece

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part Five: The Varoufakis-Tsipras Line was Doomed from the Word "Go"

  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 fifth part of a series of articles analyzing the book, Eric Toussaint looks at the earliest days of the Tsipras government. 

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part Four: Varoufakis Surrounded Himself with Defenders of the Establishment

  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 fourth part of a series of articles analyzing the book, Eric Toussaint traces how Varoufakis selected advisors more sympathetic to the financial establishment than the Syriza program. 

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  Sellouts in the Room: Éric Toussaint on the Greek Debt Crisis and Syriza Capitulation

  Éric Toussaint, the spokesman of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) and scientific director of the Greek Debt Truth Audit Commission, describes the findings of the commission and the legal avenues available to Greece for the repudiation of a significant portion of its debt.

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  For a Radical Refoundation of Europe

  Étienne Balibar lays down the political conditions for a historic refoundation of the EU, based on a new type of federation.

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  The Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  In February 1918, the repudiation of the debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and sparked off unanimous condemnation by the governments of the great powers.

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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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  The Common Thread of Pessimism: Razmig Keucheyan on contemporary critical theory

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  Post-fascism: a mutation still underway

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