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
Hear from:
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
Julian Richards is the managing editor of openDemocracy. Before joining us in 2018, he was head of production at New Scientist, where he had also worked as acting digital editor and a subeditor. His career has involved titles as diverse as Accountancy Age and What Mountain Bike? in the UK, among many others, and the Mail & Guardian in South Africa.
