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: Economic Growth & The Environment
April 14, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature…
CSS Panel Event: Bread and Roses, or What Women Want …
March 17, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion
Some fifty years after its inauguration, second-wave feminists celebrated the ‘first’ annual International (Working) Women’s Day, having casually dropped the…
CSS On Tour – William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist
February 13, 2021 6:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Other NZ Locations, Public Lecture
"We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism,…
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…