CSS Public Lecture – Harbinger of a New Society: The Paris Commune of 1871
December 9, 2020 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“Working men’s Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs…
CSS Public Lecture – Shop Floor 101: Employment Rights & Economics for Workers
January 20, 2021 7:30 pm-9:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed…
CSS Public Lecture – Useful Work vs. Useless Toil: Marx, Morris, and Alienation
February 10, 2021 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
Please note: we are working on a new schedule where "doors open" from 7pm, and ours events will start right…
CSS Panel Event: Bread and Roses, or What Women Want …
March 17, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion
Some fifty years after its inauguration, second-wave feminists celebrated the ‘first’ annual International (Working) Women’s Day, having casually dropped the…
CSS Public Lecture: Economic Growth & The Environment
April 14, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature…
CSS Public Lecture: Lenin’s Party in New Zealand – 100 years of Leninism
June 9, 2021 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
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…
CSS Public Lecture: The Rise of Modi and the Situation in India
August 11, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
For our 2021 August event the Canterbury Socialist Society is pleased to host a guest lecture from Josephine Varghese. Josephine…
CSS Public Lecture – Solitude or Solidarity: Marxism and Postcolonial Theory
October 13, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
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…
CSS Bonus Event – Tech Won’t Save Us, with guest speaker Paris Marx
March 22, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
"In machinery, knowledge appears as alien, external to him; and living labour as subsumed under self-activating objectified labour. The worker…