Events

NZFSS Online Seminar – Significant Emotions w Ashley Frawley
April 5, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Otago, Other NZ Locations, Public Lecture, Wellington
“Nietzsche already observed that, after the death of God, health rose to divine status. If a horizon of meaning extended…

Mā Pango Mā Whero Ka Oti Te Mahi – Public Discussion with Nīkau Wi Neera
April 11, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
"Mā pango mā whero ka oti te mahi" - Whakataukī (through the red and the black the work will be…

WSS Public Lecture – Lessons from the Picket Line
May 9, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
"But as soon as the workers discover that their interests are common, that they are all opposed to the exploiter,…

Supplementary Questions – WSS Presents A Public Conversation with Chloe Swarbrick
June 22, 2023 6:00 pm
Kia ora, neighbours. The Wellington Socialist Society brings to you, the good people of Wellington, a bonus event this June.…

Confronting Fascism: Socialist Knowledge and the Far-Right in Interwar Europe
September 12, 2023 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
“Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate.…

Wellington Socialist Society AGM 2023
October 14, 2023 4:00 pm-5:30 pm
To all members, This is the date for the Wellington Socialist Society Annual General Meeting for 2023. The AGM is…

Election Night Watch Party
October 14, 2023 6:00 pm-10:00 pm
Events, Open Discussion, Open Discussion, Wellington
“And if universal suffrage had offered no other advantage than that it allowed us to count our numbers every three…

Lives in the Labour Movement: Pat Hickey, Jim Anderton, and Helen Kelly
November 14, 2023 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Events, Panel Discussion, Wellington
In this panel discussion, the Wellington Socialist Society brings together three biographers of influential labour movement figures in Aotearoa. Two…

WSS Screening: The Dupes, 1972
December 5, 2023 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Events, Film Screening, Wellington
Come along to the first WSS Film Screening in a long while next Tuesday. The Dupes is Tewfik Saleh's adaptation…

WSS Presents – It’s Not You, It’s Me: Seeing the Real Problems in New Zealand Politics
December 12, 2023 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
For our last educational event of 2023, the Wellington Socialist Society are happy to host Danyl McLauchlan, one of Aotearoa’s…

Capital After Covid – NZFSS Online Seminar w Guest Speaker Michael Roberts
January 24, 2024 8:00 pm
Canterbury, Otago, Public Lecture, Wellington
“Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They…

Our New Prometheans – WSS presents: The Radical Philosophies of Silicon Valley Elites w/ Paris Marx
February 8, 2024 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Events, Open Discussion, Panel Discussion, Public Lecture, Wellington
“The reform of consciousness consists only in making the world aware of its own consciousness, in awakening it out of…