The Labour Party: Which Way Forward? – A Wellington Socialist Society Panel Discussion
August 13, 2024 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Events, Panel Discussion, Wellington
There have been three periods of major transformation in Aotearoa’s political economy: the 1890s, the 1930s, and the 1980s. Founded…
International Indigenous Solidarity Panel: Palestinian and Tangata Whenua – hosted by Justice for Palestine & Wellington Socialist Society
August 5, 2024 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Events, Panel Discussion, Wellington
Indigenous resistance in Palestine and in Aotearoa responds to the violence of settler colonialism, and it is initiated in both…
The Philosophy of Ernst Bloch in an Age of Disaster – An online seminar hosted by Jon Greenaway
August 4, 2024 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Interview, Otago, Public Lecture, Wellington
"Precisely the defeated man must try the outside world again" - Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope (1954). It is…
CSS public lecture and discussion – Mutual Aid: Fostering Resilience and Solidarity
July 31, 2024 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution…
How To Read Wars: A Public Conversation with John Dolan
July 25, 2024 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Chaired discussion, Events, Interview, Wellington
In many ways, the 2020’s seems further away from the ‘end of history’ than the 1920’s. This has led some…
Panel Event – The Socialist Society: Where have we come from, where are we going?
July 10, 2024 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion
"Marx was not simply the best or most consistent or radical socialist, but rather the most historically, and hence critically,…
They Shall Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares – The Catholic Worker Kaupapa with Adi Leason
May 14, 2024 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
“And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword…
Ghosts of the Millennial Left – An Online Seminar w/ C Derick Varn
May 5, 2024 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Interview, Otago, Public Lecture, Wellington
“There is today in the world a dominant discourse […] This dominating discourse often has the manic, jubilatory, and incantatory…
Summer of Discontent – Two Years on from the Parliament Protests with Tom Smith
April 9, 2024 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Events, Open Discussion, Public Lecture, Wellington
Join Federation member Tom Smith in a public discussion about the significance of 2022's parliament occupation. In the present moment,…
The Ernie Abbott Memorial Lecture
March 27, 2024 4:30 pm-7:00 pm
Events, Film Screening, Panel Discussion, Wellington
Wellington Socialist Society & Wellington Trades Hall are proud to present: THE ERNIE ABBOTT MEMORIAL LECTURE “Ernie was an ordinary…
WSS Screening: Utu, 1983
March 19, 2024 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Events, Film Screening, Wellington
Come along to our next WSS film screening. Utu is Geoff Murphy's depiction of the Māori struggle against Pākehā domination in…
Reality Captured; Reality Imagined: Politics and Gender Through the Lens of Kati Horna
March 13, 2024 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Amelia Byrnes will survey the life and work of Hungarian-born photographer, Kati Horna, and…