The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago.
Our events are open to all and free to attend.
Second New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies National Conference – Labour Weekend 2024
October 26, 2024 12:00 pm-October 27, 2024 10:00 pm
Events, Panel Discussion, Public Lecture, Wellington
Kia ora Neighbours - both members and supporters of the New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies. The Wellington Socialist Society…
New Unionism – A Panel Conversation hosted by the Wellington Socialist Society
September 24, 2024 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
There is a cultural understanding that trade unions are male-dominated and the preserve of workers in manufacturing or other physically…
Guest Lecture – New Debates on Social Domination: Marxist Political Theory in the Post-Pandemic Era
August 14, 2024 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
The Canterbury Socialist Society is thrilled to be able to host this guest lecture for our August event, 2024. Berkay…
The Little Red Reading Group: Introduction to Marxist Ecology – Metabolic Rift Theory
August 14, 2024 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Events, Open Discussion, Wellington
Today the climate crisis and humanity’s broader relationship to non-human nature are among the most important questions for the Left…
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,…
Social(ist) Drinks & Book Swap
June 21, 2024 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Unfortunately, plans for our regular educational event in June need to be postponed, however we hope to be able to…
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…