“You will never find peace with these fascists You’ll never find friends such as we So remember that valley of Jarama And the people that’ll set that valley free. From this valley they say we are going Do not hasten to bid us adieu Even though we lost the battle at Jarama We’ll set this…
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer In the wake…
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on the last Sunday of every month. This will entail closer reading and discussion of specific texts, with a focus on building a solid foundation of knowledge. As such many of the readings will be fairly…
For our April event Canterbury Socialist Society is excited to host Lachlan, a young Cantabrian, who fought alongside the People’s Protection Units (the YPG) in Syrian Kurdistan against ISIS, and in defense of the attempt to bring democratic, regional autonomy along side sweeping social transformation to the Kurdish people. Lachlan will be providing an eye…
“We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.” -William Morris, 1895. Our February event is a public lecture on William Morris. William Morris was an artist, textile designer, craftsman, poet, novelist, and pioneering socialist. His fiction…
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on the last Sunday of every month. This will entail closer reading and discussion of specific texts, with a focus on building a solid foundation of knowledge. As such many of the readings will be fairly…
Our first event for 2019 is a free screening of the 2018 dark comedy ‘Sorry to Bother You’ written and directed by Boots Riley. Boots Riley is a musician and outspoken communist, best known from hip hop group “The Coup”. The film follows a young African-American telemarketer who adopts a white accent to succeed at…
“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.” ― C.L.R. James The final event for the Canterbury Socialist Society of 2018 is a guest lecture from Gareth of the Otago Socialist Society on the Haitian Revolution. Gareth will be…
“All the world that’s owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone We have laid the wide foundations, built it skyward stone by stone It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own” Solidarity Forever For the Canterbury Socialist Society event this September we are delighted to welcome Brendan from…
“A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia have taken up residence in the ‘Grand Hotel Abyss’, a beautiful hotel, equipped with every comfort, on the edge of an abyss, of nothingness, of absurdity. And the daily contemplation of the abyss between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of the subtle…