The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago.
Our events are open to all and free to attend.
CSS Guest Lecture: Ours To Master and To Own
November 7, 2018 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
"All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone We have laid the wide foundations, built…
CSS Public Lecture: The Grand Hotel Abyss
October 9, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
"A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia have taken up residence in the ‘Grand Hotel Abyss’, a beautiful hotel,…
Canterbury Socialist Society: Annual General Meeting 2018
September 12, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Dear friends, Due to the need to reschedule our original September event the CSS has brought its AGM forward from…
CSS Film Screening: Harlan County, USA (1976)
August 7, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
//Which side are you on? Which side are you on? They say in Harlan County There are no neutrals there…
CSS Public Lecture: Kids These Days
July 10, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
"Major trends like the increase in average worker output, rationalization, downward pressure on the cost of labor, mass incarceration, and…
CSS Guest Lecture: Left Out? Speaking Tour – Christchurch
June 24, 2018 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
The Canterbury Socialist Society is excited to welcome a guest lecture from Tyler (The Ice Bloc) for our June Event:…
Standing Orders 2.0: Socialist Society Beers and Books Club
June 21, 2018 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
This is an update to our monthly social drinks in order to facilitate a wide variety of discussion and engagement.…
CSS Film Screening: The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006)
May 8, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
"If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the…
CSS Public Lecture: Workers Against War
April 24, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury Socialist Society presents "Workers Against War" - a public lecture on this history of the Workers' Movement opposition to…
CSS Guest Lecture: The Working Day & Surplus Value
March 29, 2018 7:30 pm-11:30 pm
"As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life…
Standings Orders: Monthly Pints with the Socialist Society
March 15, 2018 7:00 pm-11:59 pm
We will be at Pomeroy's Old Brewery Inn from 7pm. Pints and politics, beer and banter, martinis and marxism, negri and a…
Screening: Hail, Caesar! (2016)
February 20, 2018 7:30 pm-11:00 pm
The February event of the Canterbury Socialist Society is a screening of the Coen brothers' film 'Hail, Caesar!'. This satire…