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The Pōneke branch of the ISO, organising on campus for a better world.
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Hello! Though not officially part of #nziff we are hosting our own FREE film screening of Bacurau (2019, 2h 11min).

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

Come join us to watch the film, discuss community organising and socialist politics 📢

Doors 5:45pm in room HMLT104, Kelburn campus by @vuwsocialists

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2 months ago

PUBLIC TALK ALERT 🚨 🚨 🚨

Students Against Fees: Lessons from the Education Action Groups of the 90s

Come join us to discuss the history of student struggle against tertiary fees and what we can learn as we look to build a movement that fights for students, for a future in which education is free for all.

Tuesday August 4th, 6:30pm
EA201, Easterfield building, VUW Kelburn Campus
(not our usual room rip 😢) by @vuwsocialists

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3 months ago

Come join us this Thursday, before @vuwsagram rally at Parliament for some pre-rally activities.

Learn how you can get involved and continue the movement that can resist the commodification of our education.

And then join the walking bus to Parliament at 12:20!🛹

Education is our Right not our Debt! by @vuwsocialists

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3 months ago

Kai & Kōrero night co-hosted by ISO and Student Justice for Palestine! 🍉🍉

Tuesday 28th July, 6:30pm EA201, Easterfield building, VUW Kelburn Campus

With everything that's been going on, it's important to build new connections and cherish existing ones to ensure that our movement continues. This will be a relaxed event bringing together a community committed to liberation.

You can bring a plate of kai if you like, but this is also not required - there will be some for everyone.

Feel free to come even if you have never joined us before, to learn how you can join the struggle for a free Palestine, and why we need now more than ever to fight for a socialist alternative! by @vuwsocialists

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ISO Coordinating Committee member @oscar_bartle speaks on attacks on tertiary education and the need for a mass militant student movement.

Join the protests which are taking place on 29 July in Ōtepoti and Tāmaki makaurau, and 30 July in Te Whanganui-a-tara.

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A man with dark hair, a beard, glasses, and a grey coat speaks to a camera. Background of a beige wall, a door, and a clothes rack. by @vuwsocialists

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Tri-2 public talks part 3! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈

Natural Rebels

Socialism, radicalism and Queer activism in Aotearoa with guest speaker Will Hansen!

Join the International Socialist Organisation and historian Will Hansen to explore the history of radical Queer activism in Aotearoa, from commie queers to the Black Dykes, and discuss the fight for Queer rights today.

Tuesday 21st, 6:30pm
EA120, Easterfield building
VUW Kelburn Campus

See you there 🫡 by @vuwsocialists

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Tri 2 public talks 😈 part 2!

Top 5 Lines of the Communist Manifesto

"Page for page, no other publication of our time has rivaled the historical impact of The Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels,"

- Hal Draper, Adventures of the Manifesto

Mass paperback editions of The Communist Manifesto are universally stocked in every bookshop, yet the seeds of its program haven't sprouted. It is known virtually everywhere but its contents are somehow invisible. Regardless of even its unfortunate absorption into capitalism, it still stands as one of the most significant pieces of political literature that still inspires the struggle for liberation, 178 years after its publication. For us communists of today, what does it say to us, how do we read it, and how do we apply its ideas in Aotearoa? Come find out next Tuesday!

Tuesday 14th, 6:30pm
Room EA120, Easterfield building
VUW Kelburn campus by @vuwsocialists

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Tri - 2 Public Talks 🧐📣

Socialism vs. The Climate Crisis

The Climate Crisis looms. Each year is hotter than the last, and 'natural' disasters continue to worsen. Capitalism is the root cause of this crisis. It is not the result of a few bad actors, but inherent to the coercive logic of the market economy and capitalist competition. Efforts to convince capitalists and politicians to reform have not worked because they have as little control over it as the rest of us. The only way out of the climate crisis is through revolution - to move to socialism by smashing the state and forcibly putting the economy into workers control. How do we get there? Come find out next Tuesday!

Tuesday 7th July, 6:30pm EA120
Kelburn Campus

Come join and discuss! by @vuwsocialists

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Join the Queer Cinema for Palestine screening at VUW this Thursday 25 June 2026 (6pm start) in HMLT104. We’ll be there with some remaining items from our mutual aid market for sale - all proceeds will go to mutual aid organizations (Samir Foundation and Academic Solidarity with Palestine).

See you there ❤️🇵🇸 by @vuwsocialists

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4 months ago

🏳️‍⚧️ AGAINST THE “DEFINITIONS OF WOMAN AND MAN” BILL

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Image description: a series of text posts against various red-tinted background images of protests and marches for trans rights. Each slide has the header “international socialist organisation aotearoa” and body text in white.

Image 1: Transgender symbol flag amidst a crowd at the National Trans Visibility March in Washington DC, 2019. Title: Against the “Definitions of Woman and Man” Bill. Body text: Following in the footsteps of innumerable waves of anti-trans legislature in the US and the UK’s Supreme Court decision last year, the coalition government ensured that, on 20 May, “Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill” passed its first reading. It is now with the Select Committee and submissions on this Bill will be accepted until 2 July. Ahead of the National Day of Action for Trans Rights on 13 June, ISO is making the following submission against this Bill – you can read it on the next slides – but it is crucial that, as well as submitting against this Bill, we join in solidarity with our LGBTQI+ communities to fight against it.

Continued in comments. Text post with red tinted background image of trans symbol flag. by @vuwsocialists

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4 months ago

No Pride in Genocide: Queer Cinema for Palestine 2026 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈

Thursday, June 25th // 6pm start // HMLT104, Kelburn campus

Come join us for a special screening of 6 short films made by Queer, Palestinian, or Allied artists from across the diaspora.

This event is jointly hosted and organised by ISO Te Whanganui-a-Tara and VUW SJP as part of @queercinema4palestine international film festival spanning more than 100 countries.

Justice for Palestine are hosting a screening of these films on Massey Campus on Friday the 26th.

You can find the event pages for our screening and J4p's through the link in our bio! taken in Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington by @vuwsocialists

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FREE ISO MOVIE NIGHT: Too free, Too Socialist 😈

What does Marx think of Miyazaki?

Join us this Thursday, May 28th, to watch a Studio Ghibli classic, Princess Mononoke (1997).

Doors open 5:45 in room HMLT104, Kelburn campus. Running time: 133 minutes. by @vuwsocialists

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