The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago.
Our events are open to all and free to attend.
POSTPONED: CSS Public Lecture: Solitude or Solidarity
September 11, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
[Solitude or Solidarity: On Postcolonialism and Marxism] "The day we can’t get our hands on the ballot boxes before the…
Open Discussion: What do we mean when we talk about socialism?
September 11, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Open Discussion
“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice…
CSS & Unions Canterbury Film Screening: 1951
August 14, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Film Screening
"At the anniversary celebrations of the veterans of '51, as I mingled with those mighty people, the years fell away…
CSS Public Lecture: Local Legacies of Radicalism
July 10, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
"No. I am no dog to be registered; neither am I a slave to be trained to fight to uphold…
CSS Film Screening: Land and Freedom (1995)
June 12, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
“You will never find peace with these fascists You'll never find friends such as we So remember that valley of…
CSS Public Lecture: ¡No pasarán! – The Far Right Today
May 8, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride…
Canterbury Socialist Society Sunday Morning Reading Group
April 28, 2019 11:00 am-12:00 pm
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on…
CSS Public Lecture: Homage to Rojava
April 10, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
For our April event Canterbury Socialist Society is excited to host Lachlan, a young Cantabrian, who fought alongside the People's…
Canterbury Socialist Society Sunday Morning Reading Group
March 31, 2019 11:00 am-12:00 pm
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on…
CSS Film Screening: Pride (2014)
March 13, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
"When the first LGSM meeting took place on the eighth floor of a council flat in Bermondsey, none of the…
Canterbury Socialist Society Sunday Morning Reading Group
February 24, 2019 11:00 am-12:00 pm
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on…
CSS Public Lecture: “An Epoch of Rest” William Morris (1834-96)
February 13, 2019 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
"We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism,…