The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago.
Our events are open to all and free to attend.
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,…
CSS Public Lecture: Pro Patria Mori? Socialist Opposition to the First World War in Christchurch
April 12, 2023 6:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
"This war...WILL END CAPITALISM! Do you get that? After capitalism, what? SOCIALISM!" This quote from trade unionist Ted Howard, written…
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,…
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…