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 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…
Standings Orders: Monthly Pints with the Socialist Society
February 15, 2018 5:00 pm-11:59 pm
As usual our social event is the third Thursday of the month from 7pm at Pomeroy's Old Brewery Inn on…
Women, Witches, Work: Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch
January 17, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
According to this new social-sexual contract, proletarian women became for male workers the substitute for the land lost to the…
Last Call: End of Year Drinks with Canterbury Socialist Society
December 21, 2017 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Last call! "Working deer of all countries, unite! You have nothing to lose but your reins." After a bit over…
CSS Film Screening: The Young Karl Marx (2017)
December 13, 2017 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
As our last event of the year, aside from monthly drinks, is a screening of Raoul Peck's 2017 biopic of…