The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago. Our events are open to all and free to attend.

Supplementary Questions – WSS Presents A Public Conversation with Chloe Swarbrick
June 22, 2023 6:00 pm
Kia ora, neighbours. The Wellington Socialist Society brings to you, the good people of Wellington, a bonus event this June.…

WSS Public Panel: Social Democracy – Then & Now
June 13, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
"Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in…

WSS Public Lecture – Lessons from the Picket Line
May 9, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
"But as soon as the workers discover that their interests are common, that they are all opposed to the exploiter,…

Mā Pango Mā Whero Ka Oti Te Mahi – Public Discussion with Nīkau Wi Neera
April 11, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
"Mā pango mā whero ka oti te mahi" - Whakataukī (through the red and the black the work will be…

NZFSS Online Seminar – Significant Emotions w Ashley Frawley
April 5, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Otago, Other NZ Locations, Public Lecture, Wellington
“Nietzsche already observed that, after the death of God, health rose to divine status. If a horizon of meaning extended…

Tech Won’t Save Us – WSS Conversation with Paris Marx
March 28, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Events, Open Discussion, Wellington
“On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even…

CSS Bonus Event – Tech Won’t Save Us, with guest speaker Paris Marx
March 22, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
"In machinery, knowledge appears as alien, external to him; and living labour as subsumed under self-activating objectified labour. The worker…

OSS Public Lecture: Couldn’t Stop The Worst – The Anti-War Movement Twenty Years Later
March 20, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
On the 15th February 2003 a series of demonstrations held across New Zealand against the impending invasion kicked off a…

CSS Event: International Women’s Day Quiz Night
March 8, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
That's right! We're doing something a little different this International Women's Day! Courtney, Hayley, and Sionainn of the CSS executive…

Between First and Second-Wave Feminism, Communist Women’s Activism in Aotearoa New Zealand.
March 7, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
Kia ora, neighbours. We welcome you all to join us for our International Women's Day Event for 2023. Our March…

CSS Public Lecture: “Socialism for Dummies”
February 8, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion, Public Lecture
For our second educational event of 2023, the Canterbury Socialist Society presents "Socialism for Dummies". We hope this will be…

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,…