The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago.
Our events are open to all and free to attend.
July 10, 2022 6:00 pm
Matter, Myth, & Memory
“Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and…
June 7, 2022 6:00 pm-12:00 am
WSS FILM NIGHT : SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
Doors will open at 6:00 pm, and we will begin the screening at 6:30 pm. One of our members will…
May 25, 2022 6:30 pm-8:00 pm
Film screening – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
WEA Canterbury Workers’ Educational Association
"I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and…
May 11, 2022 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
CSS Public Discussion – NewLabour & Alliance: Lessons and Legacy
PLEASE NOTE: Over the winter months we are adjusting our start time by half an hour so that attendees are…
May 3, 2022 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
May Day Event – What is to be won?
Events, Panel Discussion, Wellington
Kia ora, comrades. On May 3rd, Unions Wellington and the Wellington Socialist Society will co-host a panel discussion on socialist…
May 1, 2022 12:00 am-August 28, 2022 12:00 am
Winter of Discontent: Canterbury Socialist Society Winter Programme May – August 2022
Canterbury, Film Screening, Interview, Open Discussion, Panel Discussion, Public Lecture
The Canterbury Socialist Society is very excited to announce the schedule for our programme for the next four months (May…
April 13, 2022 7:00 pm
CSS Roundtable Discussion: What are we to do?
Canterbury, Events, Open Discussion
"...we need something far more vulgar, far more dangerous and far more banal at the same time: a political party,…
April 10, 2022 11:00 am-April 11, 2022 3:00 pm
International Women’s Day Panel Discussion (Postponed)
Events, Panel Discussion, Wellington
INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY | LIVE MUSIC BY RACHEL ANDIE | DRINKS & LIGHT SNACKS INCLUDED | 50% TICKET SALES DONATED…
March 9, 2022 7:00 pm-9:30 pm
Surprise: It’s Women’s Day (Again)
It's International Women's Day on Tuesday 8th March - that's no surprise ... but this event is! A special treat…
February 9, 2022 7:00 pm
CSS Public Lecture: What Happened to Labour? Gramsci, Postmodernism, and the Neoliberal Turn
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which…
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,…