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….
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…
“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.” – Rosa Luxemburg. During the late 19th and early 20th century, working-class communities worldwide began organising…
“But as soon as the workers discover that their interests are common, that they are all opposed to the exploiter, it takes the form of great organizations and open battles against the exploiting class. The sense of power that goes with class consciousness means the regeneration of the working class. It raises this class forever…
The Wellington Socialist Society invites you, dear neighbour, to our next public event – Making Rebels: New Zealand’s First Socialist Party. Founded after a group of 200 British socialist ‘Clarion Settlers’ migrated here in 1900, the New Zealand Socialist Party was this country’s first nationwide socialist organisation. As branches were founded all over the country,…
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…
“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…