Doors will open at 6:00 pm, and we will begin the screening at 6:30 pm. One of our members will briefly introduce the film and the director, and then we will kick things off. Our film for the evening is the acclaimed Sorry to Bother You, directed by Boots Riley. You can find the trailer…
“I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.” – Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (1967) For our first…
PLEASE NOTE: Over the winter months we are adjusting our start time by half an hour so that attendees are not out so late in the evening. Take care to note the difference start time if you don’t want to miss significant portions of the event! ——————————————————– “But it gave me no satisfaction at all…
Kia ora, comrades. On May 3rd, Unions Wellington and the Wellington Socialist Society will co-host a panel discussion on socialist strategy and organising in a post-pandemic era at Bedlam & Squalor. This will be our May Day event for 2022. Two years of the pandemic has seen limited opportunities for those on the left in…
“…we need something far more vulgar, far more dangerous and far more banal at the same time: a political party, for such an organisation for the international organisation of the working class in this farmyard presupposes something that can contest power where it apparently resides. This is, unfortunately, the House of Parliament where ugly and…
INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY | LIVE MUSIC BY RACHEL ANDIE | DRINKS & LIGHT SNACKS INCLUDED | 50% TICKET SALES DONATED TO SHAKTI NZ Kicking off at 11am with a Panel Discussion, moderated by the epic Maggie Tweedie (of RadioActive), the panel will discuss all things #breakingthebias within the workplace. We are super excited to have the following…
It’s International Women’s Day on Tuesday 8th March – that’s no surprise … but this event is! A special treat for those who have grown weary of the annual feminine foray (usually panel-based) into socialist politics, this event is chaired by Sionainn Byrnes and features at least five real-life women with some things to say….
“Emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable.” Mark Fisher (2009) WSS would like to invite you all to our first public event of…
“The common-sense notion that ‘There is a time and place for everything’ gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.” -David Harvey, The Condition of Post Modernity For our first public lecture of 2022 we welcome Quentin Findlay to present on the rise…
“However specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would, in effect, be found to be prejudicial to their morals and happiness; it would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants in agriculture and other laborious employments to…