
WSS Public Lecture: Who’s Afraid of Fu Manchu – Moral Panics in Politics & the Return of Sinophobia
February 7, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
"Rather than the manufactured clash of civilisations, we need to concentrate on the slow working together of cultures that overlap,…

CSS Public Lecture: Crushing Apartheid – Breaking the Back of Pretoria’s Regime
January 18, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
In 1988 an army of mainly black Cuban and Angolan soldiers won a strategic victory at Cuito Cuanavale in Southern…

CSS Public Lecture – Cloud Chasing: The Vaporous World of Modern Technology
December 14, 2022 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
“A simply functional understanding of systems is insufficient; one needs to be able to think about histories and consequences too.…

The Fred Evans Memorial Lecture 2022: Lessons from the Picket Line
November 9, 2022 6:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
Strikes and the origins of neoliberalism in Aotearoa in the 1970s and 1980s. The Canterbury Socialist Society is pleased…

Making Rebels: New Zealand’s First Socialist Party
October 25, 2022 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
The Wellington Socialist Society invites you, dear neighbour, to our next public event - Making Rebels: New Zealand’s First Socialist…

Inspiration and Betrayal: The Second International (1889-1914) and its Significance Today
September 28, 2022 6:30 pm
Canterbury, Otago, Other NZ Locations, Public Lecture, Wellington
The New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies would like to invite the public to our first-ever nationwide online presentation. The…

CSS Public Lecture: Socialism and the Nation – the thought of James Connolly
August 10, 2022 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
"If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the…

Otago Socialist Society Re-Launch Event – William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist
August 6, 2022 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” -William Morris…

Matter, Myth, & Memory
July 10, 2022 6:00 pm
“Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and…

WSS FILM NIGHT : SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
June 7, 2022 6:00 pm-12:00 am
Doors will open at 6:00 pm, and we will begin the screening at 6:30 pm. One of our members will…

Film screening – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
May 25, 2022 6:30 pm-8:00 pm
WEA Canterbury Workers’ Educational Association
"I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and…

CSS Public Discussion – NewLabour & Alliance: Lessons and Legacy
May 11, 2022 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
PLEASE NOTE: Over the winter months we are adjusting our start time by half an hour so that attendees are…