Booklaunch: Confronting the Resurgent Right

Join us for the launch of Confronting the Resurgent Right. Scholars and activists take Canada’s 2022 “Freedom Convoy” as a recent manifestation of deep-rooted extremism and provide intersectional commentary on the resurgence of the political right, demonstrating how its ideology permeates and shapes the structures of our society.

With evidence-based research, and careful analysis of the genesis and methods of the right, contributors to this volume model pathways of resistance and charge us with our most urgent collective tasks: finding ways to work together, building coalitions in civil society, and exposing and countering the regressive forces that spew hate.

Presented by University of Manitoba Press in partnership with Another Story Bookshop, Toronto Workers’ History Project, The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education.

0:00 Nuzhat Jafri – introductions
0:50 Emily Visser, Mayworks
3:30 Nuzhat Jafri – Land acknowledgement
7:45 Miriam Edelson, author, editor
16:10 Peter Smith, author
27:40 Tim McCaskell, author
38:22 Judy Rebick, author
56:00 John Cartwright, author
1:06:40 Q+A

Recorded 28 May 2026, in Toronto.