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Giannis Varifakis is a prominent Greek-Australian economist, politician, and activist.

As Greece's finance minister in 2015, he gained global recognition during the negotiations

surrounding the Greek debt crisis.

He led the charge against attempts by the neoliberal globalist institutions such as the IMF

and the European Central Bank and the EU to force Greece to take out more high-interest loans

to pretend to pay back its national debt.

And he most vociferously fought against attempts to impose massive suffering on the Greek people,

the already quite beleaguered Greek people, through mandatory austerity measures

which Brussels was attempted to impose on Greece.

As is true of most people who try to challenge or defy these sorts of neoliberal power centers,

for Afakas ultimately failed in the sense that he resigned from his government and his position

when they began to make concessions that he regarded as, quote, surrender.

He did, however, succeed in convincing the Greek

population to reject a referendum that would have ratified the EU's demands. Of course, the government

ended up ignoring the will of the people, as they often do. And in the process, he also drew

international attention to the way these financial institutions crush the lives of ordinary

citizens, a dynamic

that continues to drive right-wing populist movements in the EU and the US and all throughout

the world.

And he ended up, whether he wanted to or not, with a massive platform, widely regarded as one

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