Events

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 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,…

CSS Guest Lecture: Restoring The Liberty Tree
December 12, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses…

CSS Film Screening: Sorry To Bother You (2018)
January 15, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Our first event for 2019 is a free screening of the 2018 dark comedy 'Sorry to Bother You' written and…

CSS Public Lecture: “An Epoch of Rest” William Morris (1834-96)
February 13, 2019 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
"We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism,…

CSS Film Screening: Pride (2014)
March 13, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
"When the first LGSM meeting took place on the eighth floor of a council flat in Bermondsey, none of the…

CSS Public Lecture: ¡No pasarán! – The Far Right Today
May 8, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride…

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…

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 & 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…

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…