The ‘Declaration of Athens’ was presented by Varoufakis – Corbin – Temelkouran

By Costas Raptis

He may have lost the British parliamentary elections in 2019, his party may now be dominated by his sworn opponents, but Jeremy Corbyn has not lost, it seems, the ability to “produce” political news. At least in Greece – where Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis deemed it appropriate to intervene via Twitter.

The MP and former leader of the official British opposition, who caused by his unexpected rise to the party leadership a remarkable strengthening and left shift of the Labor Party, before seeing his attempt to be canceled in Athens by Brexit in the contradictions of Brexit , a guest of MERA25, which is holding the second part of its 1st Consultative Conference in “Hellenic World”, where tonight he will be a speaker at an open event together with the self-exiled Turkish activist and writer Ece Temelkouran on the need for an anti-nationalism.

However, the two foreign guests of MERA25 already provoked an intense discussion with what they said in the press conference they gave this morning, together with Giannis Varoufakis in the event hall of ESIEA.

The three speakers, all co-founders of the “Progressive International” group, presented the “Athens Declaration” with which, in the background of the war in Ukraine, they call for the formation of a new Non-Aligned Movement with the aim of dissolving the military coalitions.

“Every million in equipment is a million not directed at schools, hospitals and feeding the poor,” said Jeremy Corbyn. He added that there are currently forty wars going on around the world, which are not of the same interest as in Ukraine. Individual encouraging developments, such as the ceasefire in Yemen, do not negate the fact, while the Palestinians, very characteristically, have not experienced peace for decades.

For his part, Yanis Varoufakis, when asked to comment on the US-Greek defense agreement, said: “I wish it were unnecessary. But it is not unnecessary in the escalating US militarism. It is not unnecessary to those who need a dependent and insecure Greece.” and that the country is becoming a “cheap firing range” and Alexandroupolis is being targeted by nuclear exchanges, without guarantees for our eastern borders, in order to serve the “escalation of a warlike NATO to find a role, which it did not have before”.

It is noted that in yesterday’s keynote address to his party’s congress, Mr. Varoufakis raised the prospect of the country leaving NATO between the “7 + 1 sections” which suggests a field for dialogue with the anti-right forces.

After that, it is obvious, let alone the name references, what Mr. Mitsotakis means when he says in today’s tweet: “Our choice is very clear: we do not soar in the four corners of the horizon, nor do we immediately declare ourselves” unbound “. to commit to the unknown. We say it clearly, we are with the alliance of the West. We come from the Enlightenment and we walk with the Democracy “.