Asher Emanuel’s The Valley: Crime and Punishment in a New Zealand City (2026) is a work of investigative journalism that interrogates the justice system in Aotearoa through the lives and stories of two men, Nathan and Rikihana, from the Hutt Valley in the Wellington region. In its course, The Valley involves issues of housing and…
NOTE: as per the decision made at our 2025 AGM, this social drinks event will now take place on the fourth Wednesday of every month and alternate between Pomeroy’s and Punky Brewster. — Come along to our monthly social event for a beer and a banter about political goings on and/or anything else that comes…
A Nelson-Tasman Socialist Society Public Lecture presented by Peter Clayworth, a historian originally hailing from Nelson, who has researched, written and spoken about the life of Patrick Hickey. Patrick Hickey was one of the key players in the ‘Red Fed’ period of New Zealand Labour history—one of the most turbulent periods in NZ’s industrial history….
Housing has been a major topic of discussion in and beyond the media in recent months, from the Government’s Move On Orders, to the eviction of dozens of homeless people from Ōtautahi’s red zone (while plans to rebuild on red zoned land progress in the background), to a massive over supply of Central City units…
2026 marks 250 years since the United States declared its independence, setting down in writing the ideals of modern bourgeois society that had been developing for centuries: that all are created equal and born with the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Declaration proclaims the profound sense of possibility nurtured by…
Israel’s war on Gaza has been termed a genocide by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry, and several unions have declared that Peace is Union Business, giving us pause to also speak out for those being subjected to other acts of militarism and human rights violations around the world. But the road to collective consensus…
NOTE: as per the decision made at our 2025 AGM, this social drinks event will now take place on the fourth Wednesday of every month and alternate between Pomeroy’s and Punky Brewster. — Come along to our monthly social event for a beer and a banter about political goings on and/or anything else that comes…
The Canterbury Socialist Society is delighted to host Dr Olivier Jutel, former journalist and media worker and now lecturer at the University of Otago. Says Olivier, the long-running crisis of public interest journalism in Aotearoa-New Zealand has become a story of global oligarchy and Big Tech imperialism. In the face of a rolling media apocalypse…
NOTE: as per the decision made at our 2025 AGM, this social drinks event will now take place on the fourth Wednesday of every month and alternate between Pomeroy’s and Punky Brewster. — Come along to our monthly social event for a beer and a banter about political goings on and/or anything else that comes…
It has always been true that the projects and sites of class struggle are many and distributed, but that feels very true now, and there are both opportunities and pitfalls in that spread! It’s time to come together!! Join members of the CSS as they discuss some of the more concrete ways in which they…