Talks

Created
Sun, 13/04/2025 - 19:34

On 11th April 2025, Melissa Benn, Jeremy Corbyn and Yanis Varoufakis addressed an audience at the University of Westminster dedicated to the memory of Tony Benn – almost 100 years from his birth. This is what Yanis had to say about Tony’s legacy at that event. (Click icon above for audio)

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Created
Fri, 24/03/2023 - 18:12

On 7th February 2023, I returned to the Chamber to discuss a wide variety of issues, beginning with a Europe-at-war, post-Brexit Britain, the New Cold War that marks capitalism’s global transition to (what I call Technofeudalism), the state of the Left in Eastern Europe and more. Thanks Cambridge Union!

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Created
Sun, 26/02/2023 - 18:52

The War in Ukraine has sped up the division of the world into two technofeudal fiefdoms – one US dollar denominated and one Chinese yuan denominated. As the world bifurcates, class struggles within each technofeudal fiefdom, as well as between them, generate destructive forces that threaten our species survival – from a New Cold War, […]

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Created
Fri, 10/02/2023 - 02:14
Letter from RMT head Mick Lynch last month offered talks but TSSA insiders say offer covered up by figures now condemned by Kennedy report on sexual harassment The scandal-hit TSSA union, whose management-backed merger with a right-wing US union fell through last year, has been in talks with another right-run union, the GMB – recently […]
Created
Mon, 07/11/2022 - 21:33

David McWilliams and I sat down in front of a splendid, heartwarming, boisterous Kilkenomics audience to talk about Technofeudalism but also Ukraine, Britain and Europe. The ersatz audio recording is not of the highest quality (sorry!) but it is not terrible either (especially if you have a good headset). Apologies for this but one of […]

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