There’s momentum in both the United States and the United Kingdom for advancing public ownership of key economic assets for the good of the people. At a panel discussion hosted by the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington on April 10, 2019, experts from both sides of the Atlantic discussed how activists were successfully pushing back against privatization and reclaiming a deep and positive heritage of public ownership.

Panelists for this event were Thomas Hanna, author of “Our Common Wealth: the return of public ownership in the United States” and research director at The Democracy Collaborative; Andrew Cumbers, political economist at the University of Glasgow; Cat Hobbs, founder and director of We Own It; and Ashik Siddique of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Metropolitan D.C. Democratic Socialists of America. The moderator is The Next System Project’s Johanna Bozuwa.