With Vermond’s Senator, Bernie Sandersbelonging to the left wing of the Democrats, met the Alexis Tsipras. “I had the great opportunity to exchange thoughts with a deeply philosophical man and politician, about the global developments,” the former prime minister wrote on Facebook.

“I met today, in the Senate building in Washington, with the Democratic Senator of Vermont and Leftist’s leading personality in the US, Bernie Sanders.

And I had the great opportunity to exchange thoughts with a deeply philosophical man and politician for global developments – and in particular on the impact of Trump policy on the US.

We talked about democracy and justice, at a time when they are brutally undermined by the rise of the far -right and the reinforcement of the role of the oligarchs in politics.

The oligarchs have always wanted to control the governments, Bernie told me, but today they don’t even want to be governments. They want to enrich uncontrollably at the expense of society and this makes things even more dangerous to the future of the planet.

I found this approach very interesting and very worrying about what is happening in the US and in our parts.

We also discussed the importance of promoting policies to deal with inequalities and climate crisis. And, of course, I emphasized the need to stand against nationalist and neo -colonial forces, supporting peace in Ukraine and the end of humanitarian disaster, with tens of thousands of dead civilians, in Palestine.

In particular, we talked about the need to cooperate the progressive forces on both sides of the Atlantic, if we want the above to become a practice. “