Kia ora, neighbours. We welcome you all to join us for our International Women’s Day Event for 2023. Our March event will be an absolute cracking chat from a giant of Aotearoa Labour History. Cybèle Locke has been described as a ‘scrupulous, adventurous writer’ who ‘foregrounds twentieth-century working-class narratives in her research.’ Cybèle has written…
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Tech Won’t Save Us – WSS Conversation with Paris Marx
“On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.” ― Theodor Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment Join the Wellington Socialist Society for a conversation with Canadian author and journalist Paris Marx, as we delve into his groundbreaking work on the tech…
WSS Public Lecture: Who’s Afraid of Fu Manchu – Moral Panics in Politics & the Return of Sinophobia
“Rather than the manufactured clash of civilisations, we need to concentrate on the slow working together of cultures that overlap, borrow from each other, and live together in far more interesting ways than any abridged or inauthentic mode of understanding can allow.” ― Edward W. Said, Orientalism “Any nation can be our friend without being…
NZFSS Online Seminar – Significant Emotions w Ashley Frawley
“Nietzsche already observed that, after the death of God, health rose to divine status. If a horizon of meaning extended beyond bare life, the cult of health would not be able to achieve this degree of absoluteness.” ― Byung-Chul Han Join us for an engaging public lecture hosted by renowned author and sociologist, Ashley Frawley, as…
Mā Pango Mā Whero Ka Oti Te Mahi – Public Discussion with Nīkau Wi Neera
“Mā pango mā whero ka oti te mahi” – Whakataukī (through the red and the black the work will be done) “You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the…
This New Democracy: The Maritime Strike, Workers, and Politics in 1890s
Kia ora, neighbours. We are back for our monthly public talk at the regular haunt, Bedlam & Squalor. $2 Taco’s night starts at Rogue and Vagabon from 5:00 pm – Doors open at Bedlam from 6:00 pm – Talk begins at 6:30 pm. This month we are hosting Jim McAloon who will be speaking on…
Inspiration and Betrayal: The Second International (1889-1914) and its Significance Today
The New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies would like to invite the public to our first-ever nationwide online presentation. The topic of discussion is “Inspiration and Betrayal: The Second International (1889-1914) and its Significance Today” and will be hosted by our comrade from the UK, Ben Lewis. This event has been put together in collaboration…
WSS Presents – Pt1. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative Online Reading Club
WSS welcomes you to our first virtual reading club of 2022. We are starting out with a classic of the twenty-teens, Mark FIsher’s Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative. If you have never read any “Theory” text before, CR is a very accessible work that introduces readers to various thinkers from Spinoza and Zizek to…
A Crisis Sown: Origins Of The Housing Crisis In Aotearoa
“The landlord demands a rent even for unimproved land, and the supposed interest l or profit upon the expense of improvement is generally an addition to this original rent. Those improvements, besides, are not always made by the stock of the landlord,but sometimes by that of the tenant. When the lease comes to be renewed,…
Matter, Myth, & Memory
“Change is freedom, change is life. It’s always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don’t make changes, don’t risk disapproval, don’t upset your syndics. It’s always easiest to let yourself be governed. There’s a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like…