The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago.
Our events are open to all and free to attend.
February 1, 2022 6:00 pm
WSS Public Lecture: “Capitalist Realism” – Is there no alternative?
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
“Emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable…
January 12, 2022 7:00 pm
CSS Public Discussion: Socialist Roundtable (Education)
Canterbury, Events, Open Discussion
"However specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would,…
December 8, 2021 7:00 pm
CSS Public Lecture: The Limits of Education under Capitalism
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…
December 1, 2021 6:00 pm
An Epoch of Unrest // WSS Public Lecture on the Legacy of William Morris
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
Getting off the ground during these times has proved to be a challenge. Still, with such phenomenal support and solidarity…
November 13, 2021 6:00 pm-November 15, 2021 6:00 pm
Loyal Right Through: Commemorating the ’51 Waterside Lockout
Canterbury, Events, Film Screening
A joint event with the Maritime Union of New Zealand, the Rail and Maritime Union of New Zealand, and the…
November 11, 2021 7:00 pm
CSS Book Launch & Public Lecture: The Unrest of 2011, One Decade On.
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
In 2011 a wave of revolution began in Tunisia and then spread across North Africa and the Middle East. In…
October 13, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture – Solitude or Solidarity: Marxism and Postcolonial Theory
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
"The day we can’t get our hands on the ballot boxes before the vote is counted we’re done for,’ Trueba…
August 11, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture: The Rise of Modi and the Situation in India
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
For our 2021 August event the Canterbury Socialist Society is pleased to host a guest lecture from Josephine Varghese. Josephine…
July 14, 2021 7:00 pm
State of the Unions 2021: The Employment Contracts Act and its Legacy
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion
"In a political struggle of class against class, organisation is the most important weapon." -Engels --------------------------------------------- For our third annual…
June 30, 2021 7:00 pm
CSS Winter Film Series #1: Little Otik
Canterbury, Events, Film Screening
Otesánek | Little Otik by Jan Švankmajer (2000) The Canterbury Socialist Society warmly invites any and all to the first…
June 9, 2021 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
CSS Public Lecture: Lenin’s Party in New Zealand – 100 years of Leninism
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistical philistines, who have brought their “civilisation” with them from England and keep it…
May 12, 2021 7:00 pm
CSS Public Lecture: Contemporary Socialism in the United States
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
"Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and…