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’s a question that comes up at least once per year: should the Canterbury Socialist Society enter into a more ‘formal’ politics at the levels of local and central government? Should it establish a new party? Seek to influence an existing one? Or should it support independent candidates on a case by case basis? On…
Join the Wellington Socialist Society and Rebel Press for the launch of Graeme Clarke’s memoir “It’s Not My Fault.” Graeme has spent much of his life in the trade union and socialist movements. He became active as a union delegate in the auto industry and later became a union official. He also became involved in…
Welcome to our inaugural Christmas pub quiz hosted by the Wellington Socialist Society to cap off a long year! Have a few drinks and enjoy some pub trivia covering topics ranging everything from politics, pop culture, to general trivia. We’ll be awarding prizes to the teams that come out on top with a podium finish….
The Canterbury Socialist Society welcomes you to our famous Christmas Quiz. Get your team together or join as an individual, be ready for a night of fun! Doors open at 6:30pm at Space Academy, quiz starts 7pm sharp. Registrations are a must! Sign up via the humanitix link here.
As per the decision at our AGM we will be having these social events on the fourth Wednesday of every month, and alternate between Pomeroy’s and Punky Brewster. Our regular monthly lowkey social event. Come along for a beer and a banter about political goings on, and anything else that comes to mind. You can…
On 14 February 1951, waterside workers rejected the shipowners’ wage offer and refused to work overtime. Within two weeks the government had deregistered their union, passed emergency regulations making it a crime to publicly support the union or provide funds, and sent the military onto wharves to do watersiders’ work. For five months, 14,000 watersiders,…
Education in New Zealand is in a state of crisis. It is fighting a hostile government that does not believe in public education. From broad sweeping curriculum changes, privatisation and union busting through charter schools, a worsening of teachers’ conditions, and the larger social issues facing youth, schools are a focal point of capitalist society’s…
Kia ora koutou, Join Teachers for Palestine Aotearoa and Wellington Socialist Society and get down to Bedlam and Squalor after the Palestine hīkoi on October 4th – bring your laptops! Continual resistence is imperative if we are to finally consign this genocide to the history books, after it has been allowed to victimise the steadfast…
Kia ora Comrades, Come one, come all to our monthly(ish) social drinks. Whether you’re a member or a fellow traveller, come and have a drink. To sweeten the deal during this cost of living “crises” (or is it just capitalism?) we’ll even put on a tab so you can have a round on us! So…