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Can US progressives beat back Trumpism?

The US is caught between authoritarianism and multiracial democracy. Join a leading progressive in Congress and a leading Labour Left MP on the prospects for America and the lessons that its progressive movement can offer for the Left in the UK and beyond

12 May 2022, 12.01am

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Pramila Jayapal Representative in US Congress, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
Clive Lewis British member of Parliament
Anthony Barnett Co-founder of openDemocracy and author of ‘Taking Control!: Humanity and America after Trump and the Pandemic’
Chair: Aaron White openDemocracy’s North America economics editor

This discussion followed a screening of our documentary 'US Progressives on a Knife Edge' – see below

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