The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago.
Our events are open to all and free to attend.
CSS Public Lecture: Homage to Rojava
April 10, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
For our April event Canterbury Socialist Society is excited to host Lachlan, a young Cantabrian, who fought alongside the People's…
Canterbury Socialist Society Sunday Morning Reading Group
March 31, 2019 11:00 am-12:00 pm
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on…
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…
Canterbury Socialist Society Sunday Morning Reading Group
February 24, 2019 11:00 am-12:00 pm
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on…
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,…
Canterbury Socialist Society Sunday Morning Reading Group
January 27, 2019 11:00 am-12:00 pm
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on…
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 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 Guest Lecture: Ours To Master and To Own
November 7, 2018 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
"All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone We have laid the wide foundations, built…
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,…
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 Film Screening: Harlan County, USA (1976)
August 7, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
//Which side are you on? Which side are you on? They say in Harlan County There are no neutrals there…