“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…
“Rather than the manufactured clash of civilisations, we need to concentrate on the slow working together of cultures that overlap, borrow from each other, and live together in far more interesting ways than any abridged or inauthentic mode of understanding can allow.” ― Edward W. Said, Orientalism “Any nation can be our friend without being…
“Nietzsche already observed that, after the death of God, health rose to divine status. If a horizon of meaning extended beyond bare life, the cult of health would not be able to achieve this degree of absoluteness.” ― Byung-Chul Han Join us for an engaging public lecture hosted by renowned author and sociologist, Ashley Frawley, as…
“Mā pango mā whero ka oti te mahi” – Whakataukī (through the red and the black the work will be done) “You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the…
On the 15th February 2003 a series of demonstrations held across New Zealand against the impending invasion kicked off a coordinated wave of demonstrations which would become one of the largest international protests in history. A month later, on the morning of the 20th March, combat troops from the US, UK, Australia, and Poland began…
In 1988 an army of mainly black Cuban and Angolan soldiers won a strategic victory at Cuito Cuanavale in Southern Angola. They fought the cream of the South African army to a standstill, a feat that Nelson Mandela hailed as being critical to the collapse of the apartheid regime. — This talk will discuss the…
For our second educational event of 2023, the Canterbury Socialist Society presents “Socialism for Dummies”. We hope this will be an opportunity for any curious, confused, unclear, or bamboozled members and supporters to get some clarification – or at least one version of it – to help progress conversations & understanding on the topic of…
“In machinery, knowledge appears as alien, external to him; and living labour as subsumed under self-activating objectified labour. The worker appears as superfluous to the extent that his action is not determined by capital’s requirements.” – Karl Marx Canterbury Socialist Society are excited to offer this bonus event to our regular schedule with a guest…