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 Bonus Event – Tech Won’t Save Us, with guest speaker Paris Marx
March 22, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
"In machinery, knowledge appears as alien, external to him; and living labour as subsumed under self-activating objectified labour. The worker…
OSS Public Lecture: Couldn’t Stop The Worst – The Anti-War Movement Twenty Years Later
March 20, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
On the 15th February 2003 a series of demonstrations held across New Zealand against the impending invasion kicked off a…
CSS Event: International Women’s Day Quiz Night
March 8, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
That's right! We're doing something a little different this International Women's Day! Courtney, Hayley, and Sionainn of the CSS executive…
Between First and Second-Wave Feminism, Communist Women’s Activism in Aotearoa New Zealand.
March 7, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
Kia ora, neighbours. We welcome you all to join us for our International Women's Day Event for 2023. Our March…
CSS Public Lecture: “Socialism for Dummies”
February 8, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion, Public Lecture
For our second educational event of 2023, the Canterbury Socialist Society presents "Socialism for Dummies". We hope this will be…
WSS Public Lecture: Who’s Afraid of Fu Manchu – Moral Panics in Politics & the Return of Sinophobia
February 7, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
"Rather than the manufactured clash of civilisations, we need to concentrate on the slow working together of cultures that overlap,…
CSS Public Lecture: Crushing Apartheid – Breaking the Back of Pretoria’s Regime
January 18, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
In 1988 an army of mainly black Cuban and Angolan soldiers won a strategic victory at Cuito Cuanavale in Southern…
CSS Public Lecture – Cloud Chasing: The Vaporous World of Modern Technology
December 14, 2022 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
“A simply functional understanding of systems is insufficient; one needs to be able to think about histories and consequences too.…
The Fred Evans Memorial Lecture 2022: Lessons from the Picket Line
November 9, 2022 6:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
Strikes and the origins of neoliberalism in Aotearoa in the 1970s and 1980s. The Canterbury Socialist Society is pleased…
Making Rebels: New Zealand’s First Socialist Party
October 25, 2022 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
The Wellington Socialist Society invites you, dear neighbour, to our next public event - Making Rebels: New Zealand’s First Socialist…
Inspiration and Betrayal: The Second International (1889-1914) and its Significance Today
September 28, 2022 6:30 pm
Canterbury, Otago, Other NZ Locations, Public Lecture, Wellington
The New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies would like to invite the public to our first-ever nationwide online presentation. The…
This New Democracy: The Maritime Strike, Workers, and Politics in 1890s
September 20, 2022 6:00 pm
Kia ora, neighbours. We are back for our monthly public talk at the regular haunt, Bedlam & Squalor. $2 Taco's…