Fabian General Secretary Sunder Katwala writes in Tribune that the winds of change in the US election must cross the Atlantic. A new President will give Britain a chance to advance a multilateral agenda in foreign policy.

On January 20 next year, as the Washington clocks strike noon, you might just hear a huge sigh of relief as it travels around the world. That's when George Bush's presidency enters the history books as his successor takes the oath of office. Whoever he or she may be, that moment feels tantalisingly close as one theme is dominating the primaries: change. After the catastrophe in Iraq, Bush's revolution will not leave the legacy the neo-conservatives intended. There is no viable Bush continuity candidate for the House because, according to the opinion polls, 70 per cent of voters in the United States say their country is currently on the wrong track.

So what happens next? Progressives need to promote a new internationalist agenda for the world after Bush. This means more than a critique of what should have been done differently since 2001. Those who have argued against unilateralism have an opportunity to explain the practical policies to make a new multilateralism possible. If 2008 is a year of change and new ideas, there must changes in British foreign policy, not just in the US. This is the theme of the Fabian Society's "Change the World' conference tomorrow (Saturday January 19).

Read the piece here.