The Wellington Socialist Society is pleased to once again welcome writer and historian Tony Simpson to Bedlam & Squalor for the highly relevant talk ‘Waitangi – Colonial Capital Comes to New Zealand’. When Tony first encountered the Treaty in the 1970’s he was puzzled by certain aspects of its text and context. Over the succeeding…
“The reform of consciousness consists only in making the world aware of its own consciousness, in awakening it out of its dream about itself, in explaining to it the meaning of its own actions… Hence, our motto must be: reform of consciousness not through dogmas, but by analysing the mystical consciousness that is unintelligible to…
Federation of Socialist Societies 2023 Conference Registration The New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies is holding our first conference over Labour Weekend (21-23 October) 2023. The ‘main event’ will be all day on Sunday 22nd, and this will be bookended with a Commonweal IV launch party on Saturday evening, and an optional working…
“Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations.” Karl…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
“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…
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….