The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago.
Our events are open to all and free to attend.
September 12, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury Socialist Society: Annual General Meeting 2018
Dear friends, Due to the need to reschedule our original September event the CSS has brought its AGM forward from…
August 7, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Film Screening: Harlan County, USA (1976)
//Which side are you on? Which side are you on? They say in Harlan County There are no neutrals there…
July 10, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture: Kids These Days
"Major trends like the increase in average worker output, rationalization, downward pressure on the cost of labor, mass incarceration, and…
June 24, 2018 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
CSS Guest Lecture: Left Out? Speaking Tour – Christchurch
The Canterbury Socialist Society is excited to welcome a guest lecture from Tyler (The Ice Bloc) for our June Event:…
June 21, 2018 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Standing Orders 2.0: Socialist Society Beers and Books Club
This is an update to our monthly social drinks in order to facilitate a wide variety of discussion and engagement.…
May 8, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Film Screening: The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006)
"If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the…
April 24, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture: Workers Against War
Canterbury Socialist Society presents "Workers Against War" - a public lecture on this history of the Workers' Movement opposition to…
March 29, 2018 7:30 pm-11:30 pm
CSS Guest Lecture: The Working Day & Surplus Value
"As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life…
March 15, 2018 7:00 pm-11:59 pm
Standings Orders: Monthly Pints with the Socialist Society
We will be at Pomeroy's Old Brewery Inn from 7pm. Pints and politics, beer and banter, martinis and marxism, negri and a…
February 20, 2018 7:30 pm-11:00 pm
Screening: Hail, Caesar! (2016)
The February event of the Canterbury Socialist Society is a screening of the Coen brothers' film 'Hail, Caesar!'. This satire…
February 15, 2018 5:00 pm-11:59 pm
Standings Orders: Monthly Pints with the Socialist Society
As usual our social event is the third Thursday of the month from 7pm at Pomeroy's Old Brewery Inn on…
January 17, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Women, Witches, Work: Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch
According to this new social-sexual contract, proletarian women became for male workers the substitute for the land lost to the…