DiEM25 co-founder, Yanis Varoufakis, talks with Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour Party, at the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival. Humanizing politics. Reviving democracy. The youth re-inovate politics. Rejecting a system that is grotesquely unfair. We can not afford all these levels of inequality. We’ve got to do something about it. Technology should benefit all of us. Good housing leads to good health. Unite together around the kind of world we could create.

Jeremy Corbyn: “What are progressive people in Germany, France, the USA, Greece, Spain saying? They are actually saying the same thing: You cannot go on diminishing the role of the public service of the state without paying a price in poverty and in inequality, and without paying a price with people’s lives being wasted… We can’t run the whole world based on a services economy.”

Yanis Varoufakis: “In order to bring these progressives together, from Germany, from the United States, from Italy, from Greece, from Britain, we need to create the political infrastructure that does that, starting with a movement […]”.

The above is a taster of an hour-long conversation that is making waves online, a serious conversation that needs to happen everywhere.