Let’s make history in 2024: A message from Yanis Varoufakis

Hello.

This is Yanis Varoufakis
with an end of the year message

on behalf of
everyone at DiEM25,

our pan European
Democracy in Europe Movement,

to all of you.

This year's festivities
come in the midst

of a genocide that
will stigmatise a

whole generation.

Yes.

At this time of year,
like throughout

the year, we must
look after our loved ones,

celebrate their
achievements,

take care of our nearest
and dearest who

need our attention.

But we can't celebrate
freely while thousands

of children are being
slaughtered in the

Holy Land with the
full complicity of

our European Union.

Our leaders from Von
der Leyen to Olaf Scholz

and Manuel Macron, even
the European Party of the Left,

are being
criminally complicit.

And, by the way, so are
we by associatio,

to the extent that
we let them.

Ever since the seventh
of October, when Hamas

broke out of the Gaza
prison camp, as every

Palestinian has a duty
to, but with acts of

atrocious violence that
can never be justified.

Since then, the entire
European political class

has behaved as
morally superior to

both Palestinians
and Israelis,

when in truth,

it was Europe that
has been responsible

for centuries long
antisemitism,

for the holocaust.

And since the 1920’s, the Nakba,

the steady, systematic
ethnic cleansing of

Palestinians, an ethnic
cleansing, which today

unfolds as a fully
fledged genocide.

By not intervening to stop the
slaughter in Gaza,

in the West Bank, but also
in Yemen, in Ukraine,

in Syria, in Kashmir,

Europe is proving that
human rights are to us

that which the Bible
was to the Spanish inquisition,

a cover, a veneer of ethicality

with which to cover up
our European settler

imperialist society's
utter brutality.

We, Europeans,
have lost sight of

a terrible fact.

Human rights are
precisely that which

Europe and the United
States never intended

to grant the oppressed.

To those who needed them,

in the Middle East, in Africa, in Asia,

but also in our depressed
working class areas

in Europe, in Britain,
in the United States,

in the West.

The whole Western litany
about human rights is a sham.

It is only an excuse
to bomb, to shoot,

and to violate
those who actually

need human rights.

And to do this to
them while pretending

that we're somehow
morally superior.

What is happening today
in Gaza, in Kashmir,

in Yemen, in Syria, in
Nagorno Karabakh, will

determine our capacity
as Europeans to live

freely in our own
countries in Europe.

To live without fear of
oppression or indignity

here in Greece, in
Germany, in France,

in Spain, in Portugal, in
Britain, in Ireland.

As Julian Assange
continues to rot away

in solitary in Britain's
Guantanamo for having

dared to expose to
us the crimes of our

governments committed
in our name against our

interest, our right to
know has been shattered.

While the European Union
continues to fund the

few who have more money
than they know what to do with,

while starving
the many and refusing

to fund the green
transition without which

there will be no future.

Our own societies
are being poisoned

spiritually, and our
species' survival

becomes less likely.

With the toxification
of our politics and

our planet proceeding
so swiftly, it is

easy to lose hope,
to give up, no longer

to look up, but this
is not inevitable.

DiEM25 proves,
by our very

existence, our activism
that a democratic,

compassionate, and
radically progressive

Europe is not just
possible, but that it

is here in DiEM25, in
our political parties, MERA25,

here in Greece,
in Germany, in Italy,

soon in other countries.

Next June, Europe is
going to be staging

another sham European
parliament election.

We, DiEM25 and MERA25,
our political parties,

are going to be running,
not because the European Parliament

can change
anything in itself,

but because your voice must
resonate in its chamber.

It must be amplified
in there so that it can

be heard loud and clear
out there across Europe.

So that our voices,
your voices, can expose

our rulers' lies and
hypocrisy.

To resonate in there as a first
step towards liberating

your voices so that
they can together become

a surge of reason and
humanism, a surge that

reclaims our continent,
our countries, our

cities, our villages,
our neighborhoods.

From whom?

From the oligarchy, who
feast on humanity and

nature in the interest
of profit and, of course,

from exporting
arms, weapons to

their former colonies.

In this struggle to
raise hell in the

European Parliament
on behalf of heaven

and, therefore, to
save our souls, our

species, our planet.

We need your help.

Your support has been
central, essential

in keeping DiEM25
alive in terms of our

operations, the spirit
of our democracy,

our mission, our campaign.

DiEM25 has been, for
years now, fueled

by uncommon people
like your good self,

people who demand a
different peace loving Europe.

A Europe whose
prosperity is common

and divorced from
the logic of profit.

For that, our resolve
and our commitment

must walk hand in hand.

Only so will we turn
this bogus sham of

an election for the
European Parliament

into a useful campaign.

Our political parties,
MERA25, are geared

to do exactly that.

So on this holiday
season, we ask you to

stand with us again.

Your contribution can
make all the difference.

Together, we can bring
DiEM25's message, voice,

to the floor of the
European Parliament.

That won't change Europe
by itself, but it will

give Europeans a chance,
a shot at reclaiming

the right to know and to
be heard, an important

opportunity to empower
the many, not the few.

In the process, and
since this is the

festive season, let me
add that as DiEM25

has proven in
all our get togethers,

we can do this.

We can do what is
right by Europeans

and by the world and
by the planet while

having fun as well.

So a happy holiday
season for everyone.

Carpe diem.