Book Launch
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 @ 7:00 PM (ET)
Steelworkers Hall | 25 Cecil St.
Join author Steven High and special guests for the launch of The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class.
Based on extensive archival research and interviews with NDP politicians, senior economic policy advisors, and trade unionists, The Left in Power examines the response of the political Left in Ontario to the crisis that gripped the old ‘industrialized world.’
Steven High revisits the heartbreaking years of Bob Rae’s Ontario NDP government—from their historic and unexpected 1990 victory, to their policy shifts that left working-class voters feeling betrayed, to their landslide defeat in 1995—to uncover what we can learn from one social democratic party’s mistakes about how to govern from the Left.