The Canterbury Socialist Society is very excited to announce the schedule for our programme for the next four months (May through August), the “Winter of Discontent“. To celebrate reaching 100 members in the Federation of Socialist Societies we have organised a minimum of 16 free public events over the next four months. These include: public lectures and discussions,…
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” -William Morris William Morris was an artist, textile designer, craftsman, poet, novelist, and pioneering socialist. His fiction helped establish fantasy as a genre, his artistic endeavours were an enormous contribution to the British “Arts and Crafts Movement”,…
“Change is freedom, change is life. It’s always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don’t make changes, don’t risk disapproval, don’t upset your syndics. It’s always easiest to let yourself be governed. There’s a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like…
Doors will open at 6:00 pm, and we will begin the screening at 6:30 pm. One of our members will briefly introduce the film and the director, and then we will kick things off. Our film for the evening is the acclaimed Sorry to Bother You, directed by Boots Riley. You can find the trailer…
“I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.” – Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (1967) For our first…
PLEASE NOTE: Over the winter months we are adjusting our start time by half an hour so that attendees are not out so late in the evening. Take care to note the difference start time if you don’t want to miss significant portions of the event! ——————————————————– “But it gave me no satisfaction at all…
Kia ora, comrades. On May 3rd, Unions Wellington and the Wellington Socialist Society will co-host a panel discussion on socialist strategy and organising in a post-pandemic era at Bedlam & Squalor. This will be our May Day event for 2022. Two years of the pandemic has seen limited opportunities for those on the left in…
“…we need something far more vulgar, far more dangerous and far more banal at the same time: a political party, for such an organisation for the international organisation of the working class in this farmyard presupposes something that can contest power where it apparently resides. This is, unfortunately, the House of Parliament where ugly and…
INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY | LIVE MUSIC BY RACHEL ANDIE | DRINKS & LIGHT SNACKS INCLUDED | 50% TICKET SALES DONATED TO SHAKTI NZ Kicking off at 11am with a Panel Discussion, moderated by the epic Maggie Tweedie (of RadioActive), the panel will discuss all things #breakingthebias within the workplace. We are super excited to have the following…
It’s International Women’s Day on Tuesday 8th March – that’s no surprise … but this event is! A special treat for those who have grown weary of the annual feminine foray (usually panel-based) into socialist politics, this event is chaired by Sionainn Byrnes and features at least five real-life women with some things to say….