The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago.
Our events are open to all and free to attend.
October 26, 2024 6:15 pm-9:00 pm
Te Tiriti and the struggle for socialism
Events, Panel Discussion, Wellington
The Saturday keynote panel of the Second New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies National Conference - Labour Weekend 2024 brings…
October 26, 2024 12:00 pm-October 27, 2024 10:00 pm
Second New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies National Conference – Labour Weekend 2024
Events, Panel Discussion, Public Lecture, Wellington
Kia ora Neighbours - both members and supporters of the New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies. The Wellington Socialist Society…
September 24, 2024 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
New Unionism – A Panel Conversation hosted by the Wellington Socialist Society
There is a cultural understanding that trade unions are male-dominated and the preserve of workers in manufacturing or other physically…
August 14, 2024 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Guest Lecture – New Debates on Social Domination: Marxist Political Theory in the Post-Pandemic Era
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
The Canterbury Socialist Society is thrilled to be able to host this guest lecture for our August event, 2024. Berkay…
August 14, 2024 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
The Little Red Reading Group: Introduction to Marxist Ecology – Metabolic Rift Theory
Events, Open Discussion, Wellington
Today the climate crisis and humanity’s broader relationship to non-human nature are among the most important questions for the Left…
August 13, 2024 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
The Labour Party: Which Way Forward? – A Wellington Socialist Society Panel Discussion
Events, Panel Discussion, Wellington
There have been three periods of major transformation in Aotearoa’s political economy: the 1890s, the 1930s, and the 1980s. Founded…
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…