Former
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said he and US Senator Bernie
Sanders will in a month formally launch a left-wing counterpart to
the nationalist movement being forged by Steve Bannon.
A
Sanders-Varoufakis team-up was suggested in an recent op-ed by the
Greek economist published by the Guardian. The formal creation of
Progressives International is to happen in Sanders’ home state of
Vemont on November 30, Varoufakis announced during a press conference
in Rome on Friday.
Varoufakis,
who led tough negotiation with European lenders in 2015 before
resigning after Athens agreed to EU’s austerity terms, says the
world today is facing a crisis of leadership similar to what Europe
saw in the 1930s.
With the
establishment failing the common people, populist nationalist forces
are rising to power, offering quick and simple solutions to problems
like social inequality, loss of jobs to countries with cheaper labor
and mass migration. Steven Bannon, the former strategist for the
Donald Trump 2016 campaign, is currently trying to unite such
right-wing forces in various nations into a global movement.
For
Varoufakis figures like Bannon, Italian Interior Minister Matteo
Salvini, Hungarian President Viktor Orban and others pose a threat
similar to the fascist movements of the 1930s, according to his
Guardian op-ed. He and potential allies like Sanders or UK’s Labour
leader Jeremy Corbyn can offer an alternative way out of the crisis,
he believes.
But if
they are to succeed in a struggle for power against both the
globalist establishment and the nationalists, they need to unite
across borders.
“The
financiers are internationalists. The fascists, the nationalists, the
racists – like Trump, Bannon, [German Interior Minister Horst]
Seehofer, Salvini — they are internationalists,” Varoufakis
told BuzzFeed News. “They bind together. The only people who are
failing are progressives.”
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