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In this livestream taking place the day after the US midterms, Naomi Klein (author and Guardian columnist), Astra Taylor and Yanis Varoufakis discuss what the vote tells us about the far right's grip on power, and how to break it. The far right's richest backers are "building their arks, and they're causing the floods." That's the charge at the heart of End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World, the new book by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism has already given way to technofeudalism. Are these two names for the same thing, or two different fights? What do they tell us about the forces shaping American politics, and how we organise to defeat them? Hosted by Mehran Khalili. Post your questions in the live chat. FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS Naomi Klein (site): https://naomiklein.org/  Astra Taylor (X): https://x.com/astradisastra  Yanis Varoufakis (site): https://yanisvaroufakis.eu  Mehran Khalili (newsletter): https://mehrankhalili.com/subscribe  SUPPORT US Join: https://diem25.org/join ​  Donate: https://diem25.org/donate 

French teenagers are blockading their schools over missing teachers and crumbling buildings, and the state has answered with riot police: almost 7,000 people taken into custody, most of them children. Meanwhile the 2027 budget finds five times more new money for defence than for education, and the protests are spreading across Europe.  Yanis Varoufakis and Guardian columnist Rokhaya Diallo discuss what's driving the revolt, who pays for Europe's rearmament, and what can be done. Hosted by Mehran Khalili. FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS Rokhaya Diallo (site): https://www.rokhayadiallo.com/  Yanis Varoufakis (site): https://yanisvaroufakis.eu  Mehran Khalili (newsletter): https://mehrankhalili.com/subscribe  SUPPORT US Join: https://diem25.org/join ​  Donate: https://diem25.org/donate 

Germany's far-right AfD just won two state elections in two weeks, and the chancellor's own party came fifth in one of them. The pattern is European: the far-right vote grows by about a third after a financial crash. Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley on how Europe's centrists built that base, and what the left does now. Hosted by Mehran Khalili. FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS Grace Blakeley (site): https://graceblakeley.substack.com/  Yanis Varoufakis (site): https://yanisvaroufakis.eu Mehran Khalili (newsletter): https://mehrankhalili.com/subscribe SUPPORT US Join: https://diem25.org/join ​  Donate: https://diem25.org/donate 

On 6 September the AfD won 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt — the best result the German far right has ever had. The CDU, which had run the state for 24 years, was cut in half. Turnout jumped from 60% to 78%. This wasn't apathy. Around 170,000 people who hadn't been voting came out to vote AfD. Half the self-employed backed them. Nearly half of salaried employees. Julijana Zita, host of Counter Stream and based in Germany, joins Mehran Khalili to work through what happened, why the firewall isn't holding, why Die Linke had its worst ever result in that state, and what the left across Europe should take from it.  FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS Julijana Zita: https://x.com/julijana_zita  Mehran Khalili (newsletter on effective activism): https://mehrankhalili.com/subscribe SUPPORT US Join: https://diem25.org/join ​  Donate: https://diem25.org/donate

Recorded at the 6th DiEM25 Academy in Prague, this fishbowl-style discussion takes on one of the most difficult questions facing our movement: how can DiEM25 speak credibly about peace, security and anti-militarism in Eastern Europe? Since the escalation of Russia's war on Ukraine, DiEM25's anti-NATO position has faced deep suspicion across former Eastern Bloc and non-EU European countries, where NATO and EU membership are often understood not as abstract geopolitical choices, but as protection against Russian domination. Participants from Poland, Romania, Hungary, North Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Belgium and beyond bring their own histories into the room: memories of state socialism, the trauma of post-1989 neoliberal shock therapy, inequality, national humiliation, propaganda, and the lived experience of being caught between empires. The conversation moves beyond the false binary of NATO versus Russia. It asks how the Left can reject both Putin's imperialism and NATO's militarised order without sounding naïve, indifferent or detached from the fears of people in the region. Speakers discuss "campism", polarisation, the failures of Western left messaging, and the need to connect anti-war politics to everyday struggles: falling living standards, social cuts, privatisation and the enrichment of elites on all sides. What emerges is a call for a third option: not submission to NATO, not accommodation with Russian power, but a democratic European security architecture based on diplomacy, treaties, dialogue, class solidarity and the shared interests of people across borders. A necessary, uncomfortable and deeply honest conversation about what anti-war politics must become if it is to mean anything in Europe today.

This week the UK banned Hasan Piker from entering the country, claiming his presence was "not conducive to the public good" — but it's clearly over his stance on Gaza. He was due to speak at SXSW London and the Oxford Union. Two years ago, Germany did the same to Yanis Varoufakis, banned around a pro-Palestine conference in Berlin. Hasan and Yanis compare notes: liberal governments silencing people over Gaza, a free-speech right that goes quiet when the speech is pro-Palestinian, and what the left does about it. When opposing a genocide gets you barred at the border, what's left of "free speech"? Hosted by Mehran Khalili  FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS Yanis Varoufakis (site): https://yanisvaroufakis.eu Hasan Piker (Twitch): https://www.twitch.tv/hasanabi  Mehran Khalili (newsletter on effective activism): https://mehrankhalili.com/subscribe  SUPPORT US Join: https://diem25.org/join Donate: https://diem25.org/donate  Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/DiEM25official 

We're back with another live AMA with Yanis Varoufakis. The floor is yours. From geopolitics and economics to technology, culture, and beyond — your questions drive the conversation, and nothing is off limits.  Hosted by Mehran Khalili. FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS: Yanis Varoufakis (site): https://yanisvaroufakis.eu  Mehran Khalili (newsletter on effective activism): https://mehrankhalili.com/subscribe  SUPPORT US Join: https://diem25.org/join ​ Donate: https://diem25.org/donate  Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/DiEM25official

Germany pioneered Europe's crackdown on Palestine solidarity, and Britain is catching up fast — proscribing solidarity groups as terrorist organisations, criminalising slogans, and threatening to ban the marches altogether. What the official story leaves out: the anti-genocide Jewish voices being written out of "the Jewish community." They have been silenced, expelled from parties, and accused of antisemitism for opposing a genocide.  The same establishment that pushed Corbyn out now decides who's allowed to speak as a Jew. In this livestream, Yanis Varoufakis is joined by James Schneider — co-founder of Momentum and Jeremy Corbyn's former Communications Director, currently serving as Communications Director for Progressive International — to take on what's happening in Britain, Labour's collapse, what's coming across Europe, and what resistance looks like now.  FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS: Yanis Varoufakis (site): https://yanisvaroufakis.eu  James Schneider: https://x.com/schneiderhome  Mehran Khalili (newsletter on effective activism): https://mehrankhalili.com/subscribe  SUPPORT US Join: https://diem25.org/join ​ Donate: https://diem25.org/donate  Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/DiEM25official

The Iran war isn't just a Middle East story: it's landing on Europe right now, in energy bills, in supply chains, in political calculations from Berlin to Rome. And the questions most people are asking aren't being answered clearly anywhere. How exposed are we in Europe really, and why? Who gets hit hardest? What will this crisis do to European politics as elections approach — and how will people express their anger? In this livestream, Wolfgang Munchau joins Yanis Varoufakis and Mehran Khalili for a live conversation that goes beyond the headlines: what's actually happening, what it means for ordinary people across Europe, and what — if anything — can still be done.  FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS Yanis Varoufakis (site): https://yanisvaroufakis.eu Wolfgang Munchau: https://x.com/EuroBriefing  Mehran Khalili (newsletter on effective activism): https://mehrankhalili.com/subscribe SUPPORT US Join: https://diem25.org/join ​  Donate: https://diem25.org/donate  Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/DiEM25official 

Your chance to put Yanis Varoufakis on the spot. Politics, economics, philosophy — or something completely unexpected. Nothing is off the table. Join us live as Yanis answers questions submitted by you. Hosted by Mehran Khalili. FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS Yanis Varoufakis (site): https://yanisvaroufakis.eu Mehran Khalili (newsletter): https://mehrankhalili.com/subscribe  SUPPORT US Join: https://diem25.org/join  Donate: https://diem25.org/donate  Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/DiEM25official