CSS Public Lecture – Useful Work vs. Useless Toil: Marx, Morris, and Alienation
February 10, 2021 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
Please note: we are working on a new schedule where "doors open" from 7pm, and ours events will start right…
CSS Public Lecture – Shop Floor 101: Employment Rights & Economics for Workers
January 20, 2021 7:30 pm-9:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed…
CSS Public Lecture – Harbinger of a New Society: The Paris Commune of 1871
December 9, 2020 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“Working men’s Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs…
The Fred Evans Memorial Lecture 2020: “Workingmen’s Rugby”
November 11, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
The Canterbury Socialist Society is pleased to confirm our second annual Fred Evans Memorial Lecture. For this lecture we invite…
CSS Public Lecture: Such a Power In the Land as to Make the Tyrants in Wellington Tremble
October 14, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
For our October event, CSS member David Colyer will present a lecture on some of the earliest aspects of the…
CSS State of the Unions: Elections & Unionism
September 23, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion
"...against this collective power of the propertied classes the working class cannot act, as a class, except by constituting itself…
A Movement Divided: British Socialism Before & During WW1
September 9, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
"War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be…
CSS Round Table Discussion: Covid, Crisis, Economic Responses
July 8, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Open Discussion
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." -Lenin Similar to our previous "show and…
CSS Film Screening: The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
June 10, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Film Screening
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and…
CANCELLED: CSS Interview With Caleb Cain: Countering the Far-Right
March 17, 2020 12:00 am-12:00 am
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the developing situation with COVID-19 and travel restrictions Caleb has needed to return to the United…
CSS Double Feature: The Industrial Workers of the World
March 12, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Film Screening
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger…
CSS Public Lecture: Climate and Capitalism
February 11, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
Climate and Capitalism: A Public Lecture on Climate Change and Capitalism “It seems to be easier for us today to…