Come along to the first WSS Film Screening in a long while next Tuesday. The Dupes is Tewfik Saleh’s adaptation of socialist revolutionary and PFLP activist, Ghassan Kanafani’s novel ‘Men in the Sun’. The film depicts the struggle of three refugees after the 1948 Nakba in their attempt to arrive in Kuwait. Doors open at…
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WSS Presents – It’s Not You, It’s Me: Seeing the Real Problems in New Zealand Politics
For our last educational event of 2023, the Wellington Socialist Society are happy to host Danyl McLauchlan, one of Aotearoa’s most thought-provoking writers, for the talk ‘It’s Not You, It’s Me: Seeing the Real Problems in New Zealand Politics’. As Danyl explains: “There’s an Ursula le Guin quote that I often come up in online…
Lives in the Labour Movement: Pat Hickey, Jim Anderton, and Helen Kelly
In this panel discussion, the Wellington Socialist Society brings together three biographers of influential labour movement figures in Aotearoa. Two of these biographies were recently published, and one is soon to hit the shelves. Each author will give a brief overview of the life and career of their subject, followed by a question-and-answer session moderated…
Election Night Watch Party
“And if universal suffrage had offered no other advantage than that it allowed us to count our numbers every three years; that by the regularly established, unexpectedly rapid rise in the number of our votes it increased in equal measure the workers’ certainty of victory and the dismay of their opponents, and so became our…
Confronting Fascism: Socialist Knowledge and the Far-Right in Interwar Europe
“Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while…
Wellington Socialist Society AGM 2023
To all members, This is the date for the Wellington Socialist Society Annual General Meeting for 2023. The AGM is where we elect our Executive Committee, and decide on some projects and activities for the year. If you have anything you want to add to the agenda this year please send it through to wellingtonsocialistsociety@gmail.com….
CSS Public Lecture: Pro Patria Mori? Socialist Opposition to the First World War in Christchurch
“This war…WILL END CAPITALISM! Do you get that? After capitalism, what? SOCIALISM!” This quote from trade unionist Ted Howard, written in August 1914 reflects the hopes and beliefs of Canterbury socialists at the start of World War One. Based on research for the ‘Voices Against War’ website and her forthcoming book “‘I don’t believe in…
CSS Public Lecture: Anarchism for Dummies
Following the success of our first ‘Socialism for Dummies’ event earlier this year, the CSS brings you round two … ‘Anarchism for Dummies’. Featuring two of the CSS’ very own anarchists (Tim Elder and Leith McLean) and one executive member with a lot to learn (Sionainn Byrnes), this event is an opportunity to ask any…
CSS Public Lecture – They Rule: How capital dominates politics today
“The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” -Marx Eighty three of the top US corporations are linked through their interconnecting boards. Who are these people who are making important decisions about the world’s future? How do they make decisions? As we face…
Supplementary Questions – WSS Presents A Public Conversation with Chloe Swarbrick
Kia ora, neighbours. The Wellington Socialist Society brings to you, the good people of Wellington, a bonus event this June. How lucky. Chlöe Swarbrick is taking some time off her regularly scheduled sausage-making at Parliament to come down to Bedlam & Squalor so she can share some reflections over a pint or two on her…