" Do you remember why that alliance, that merger was at the very last moment jettisoned and blown up? Because they demanded that we ditch Julian Assange because he was a rapist. We lost young feminists, women and men, across the United Kingdom and across Europe within our own movement, even in the CC, in the Coordinating Collective, saying, "Come on, let's ditch Julian, he costs us more than he benefits us". But we stood our ground ...” - Yanis Varoufakis. 26 Jun 2024