The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago.
Our events are open to all and free to attend.
CANCELLED: CSS Interview With Caleb Cain: Countering the Far-Right
March 17, 2020 12:00 am-12:00 am
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the developing situation with COVID-19 and travel restrictions Caleb has needed to return to the United…
CSS Double Feature: The Industrial Workers of the World
March 12, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Film Screening
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger…
CSS Public Lecture: Climate and Capitalism
February 11, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
Climate and Capitalism: A Public Lecture on Climate Change and Capitalism “It seems to be easier for us today to…
CSS Discussion Evening: Rapprochement 2020
January 29, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Open Discussion
“Our immediate aim should be chiefly educational… with a view to dealing with the crisis if it should come in…
CSS Film Screening: The Death of Stalin (2017)
December 11, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Film Screening
"It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and…
Fred Evans Memorial Lecture: Socialism & the Early Labour Party
November 13, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
The Canterbury Socialist Society is excited to announce our first annual Fred Evans Memorial Lecture. For this lecture we invite…
CSS Panel Discussion: State of the Unions
October 9, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion
"It is always somewhat perplexing and sometimes shocking to hear, from respected unionists, a lack of concern for the struggle…
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…