Events
CSS Winter Film Series #2: Kes
June 15, 2025 12:00 am
Canterbury, Events, Film Screening
After considerable interest from Society members who met up last week, we have decided to complete our winter film series,…
Socialist Society Table at Space Academy Election Party
September 23, 2017 7:00 pm-12:00 am
As a 'bonus' social event for anyone at a loss how to spend Election Night (Saturday 23rd September) we are…
NZ’s Road To Socialism, Project Launch, Christchurch
November 9, 2017 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
NZ’s road to socialism and the Canterbury Socialist Society are co-hosting this event to launch a new project to record oral histories of…
CSS Film Screening: The Young Karl Marx (2017)
December 13, 2017 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
As our last event of the year, aside from monthly drinks, is a screening of Raoul Peck's 2017 biopic of…
Women, Witches, Work: Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch
January 17, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
According to this new social-sexual contract, proletarian women became for male workers the substitute for the land lost to the…
Screening: Hail, Caesar! (2016)
February 20, 2018 7:30 pm-11:00 pm
The February event of the Canterbury Socialist Society is a screening of the Coen brothers' film 'Hail, Caesar!'. This satire…
CSS Guest Lecture: The Working Day & Surplus Value
March 29, 2018 7:30 pm-11:30 pm
"As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life…
CSS Public Lecture: Workers Against War
April 24, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury Socialist Society presents "Workers Against War" - a public lecture on this history of the Workers' Movement opposition to…
CSS Film Screening: The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006)
May 8, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
"If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the…
CSS Guest Lecture: Left Out? Speaking Tour – Christchurch
June 24, 2018 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
The Canterbury Socialist Society is excited to welcome a guest lecture from Tyler (The Ice Bloc) for our June Event:…
CSS Public Lecture: Kids These Days
July 10, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
"Major trends like the increase in average worker output, rationalization, downward pressure on the cost of labor, mass incarceration, and…
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…