The fundamental question in economics still concerns the 2008 crisis. Was this event the last in a series of shocks needed to allow a third technological revolution to take off? Or was it evidence that capitalism’s tendency to adapt and reshape in response to technology has stalled, or is even finished?

The shock in Syriza’s upper echelons was real. It was the shock of realisation that, Germany was stronger than Italy and France combined, and that there really is no space inside the euro for a radical left government

The strategic crisis is not over. But the damage to trust and solidarity, with one nation – Germany – being seen to attempt to force another’s electorate into total surrender – is real

Less than a month after the anti-austerity Syriza party swept to victory in Greece, a major dispute has broken out between Greece’s new leaders and European finance ministers

In the financial markets there is a growing acknowledgement that Syriza stands a chance of winning

However inexperienced, naive, and lacking in machine-party discipline the new populist left in Europe is, it is setting the agenda

If the result is a yes vote, the shock to the UK will be extreme

And for the poor ones it will be over by 2060

Interview is the second in a series of interviews conducted at the Global Uprisings conference in Amsterdam, NL

Amid the cooled air of a vault at the National Archive I trace my finger across Maggie Thatcher’s handwriting, in the margin…