The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago.
Our events are open to all and free to attend.
August 5, 2024 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
International Indigenous Solidarity Panel: Palestinian and Tangata Whenua – hosted by Justice for Palestine & Wellington Socialist Society
Events, Panel Discussion, Wellington
Indigenous resistance in Palestine and in Aotearoa responds to the violence of settler colonialism, and it is initiated in both…
August 4, 2024 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
The Philosophy of Ernst Bloch in an Age of Disaster – An online seminar hosted by Jon Greenaway
Canterbury, Events, Interview, Otago, Public Lecture, Wellington
"Precisely the defeated man must try the outside world again" - Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope (1954). It is…
July 31, 2024 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
CSS public lecture and discussion – Mutual Aid: Fostering Resilience and Solidarity
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution…
July 25, 2024 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
How To Read Wars: A Public Conversation with John Dolan
Chaired discussion, Events, Interview, Wellington
In many ways, the 2020’s seems further away from the ‘end of history’ than the 1920’s. This has led some…
July 10, 2024 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Panel Event – The Socialist Society: Where have we come from, where are we going?
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion
"Marx was not simply the best or most consistent or radical socialist, but rather the most historically, and hence critically,…
June 21, 2024 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Social(ist) Drinks & Book Swap
Unfortunately, plans for our regular educational event in June need to be postponed, however we hope to be able to…
May 14, 2024 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
They Shall Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares – The Catholic Worker Kaupapa with Adi Leason
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
“And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword…
May 5, 2024 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Ghosts of the Millennial Left – An Online Seminar w/ C Derick Varn
Canterbury, Events, Interview, Otago, Public Lecture, Wellington
“There is today in the world a dominant discourse […] This dominating discourse often has the manic, jubilatory, and incantatory…
April 26, 2024 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
New Members Meeting & Social Drinks
Kia ora Neighbours, We've been a bit slack at organising social events lately. Given we've had a fair number of…
April 9, 2024 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Summer of Discontent – Two Years on from the Parliament Protests with Tom Smith
Events, Open Discussion, Public Lecture, Wellington
Join Federation member Tom Smith in a public discussion about the significance of 2022's parliament occupation. In the present moment,…
March 27, 2024 4:30 pm-7:00 pm
The Ernie Abbott Memorial Lecture
Events, Film Screening, Panel Discussion, Wellington
Wellington Socialist Society & Wellington Trades Hall are proud to present: THE ERNIE ABBOTT MEMORIAL LECTURE “Ernie was an ordinary…
March 19, 2024 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
WSS Screening: Utu, 1983
Events, Film Screening, Wellington
Come along to our next WSS film screening. Utu is Geoff Murphy's depiction of the Māori struggle against Pākehā domination in…