Events
CSS Book Launch & Public Lecture: The Unrest of 2011, One Decade On.
November 11, 2021 7:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
In 2011 a wave of revolution began in Tunisia and then spread across North Africa and the Middle East. In…
CSS Public Lecture: The Limits of Education under Capitalism
December 8, 2021 7:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion, Public Lecture
"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An…
CSS Public Discussion: Socialist Roundtable (Education)
January 12, 2022 7:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Open Discussion
"However specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would,…
CSS Public Lecture: What Happened to Labour? Gramsci, Postmodernism, and the Neoliberal Turn
February 9, 2022 7:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which…
Surprise: It’s Women’s Day (Again)
March 9, 2022 7:00 pm-9:30 pm
It's International Women's Day on Tuesday 8th March - that's no surprise ... but this event is! A special treat…
CSS Roundtable Discussion: What are we to do?
April 13, 2022 7:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Open Discussion
"...we need something far more vulgar, far more dangerous and far more banal at the same time: a political party,…
Winter of Discontent: Canterbury Socialist Society Winter Programme May – August 2022
May 1, 2022 12:00 am-August 28, 2022 12:00 am
Canterbury, Film Screening, Interview, Open Discussion, Panel Discussion, Public Lecture
The Canterbury Socialist Society is very excited to announce the schedule for our programme for the next four months (May…
CSS Public Discussion – NewLabour & Alliance: Lessons and Legacy
May 11, 2022 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
PLEASE NOTE: Over the winter months we are adjusting our start time by half an hour so that attendees are…
CSS Public Lecture: Socialism and the Nation – the thought of James Connolly
August 10, 2022 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
"If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the…
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…
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.…
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…