NOTE: as per the decision made at our 2025 AGM, this social drinks event will now take place on the fourth Wednesday of every month and alternate between Pomeroy’s and Punky Brewster. — Come along to our monthly social event for a beer and a banter about political goings on and/or anything else that comes…
It has always been true that the projects and sites of class struggle are many and distributed, but that feels very true now, and there are both opportunities and pitfalls in that spread! It’s time to come together!! Join members of the CSS as they discuss some of the more concrete ways in which they…
Andrea Dunbar was born in 1961 in Bradford, England. She lived on the Buttershaw council estate with her textile worker parents and seven siblings and attended the local Buttershaw Comprehensive School. At fifteen years old, Andrea was punished for not having arrived prepared for a domestic science lesson, but instead of the prescribed lines, Andea…
Are you looking at the world and wishing you could do more to change things? What about the people you work with – do they also care about world events? Who should workers look to in times such as these? In this panel event, representatives from the health, transport, and other sectors discuss the extent…
Please join us for this special bonus event in which former senior lecturer in mathematics, now columnist and writer Donna Miles-Mojab sits down with Sionainn Byrnes of the Canterbury Socialist Society to discuss the escalating war in Iran. In particular, Donna and Sionainn will talk through the nuances of critiquing a regime like Iran’s on…
Murray Horton has been an activist for more than sixty years, in Aotearoa, Australia, and the Philippines. At one time an Editor of the University of Canterbury magazine Canta, and then active in the former National Union of Railwaymen, Murray has also been involved with the likes of the Christchurch Progressive Youth Movement, the Philippines…
NOTE: as per the decision made at our 2025 AGM, this social drinks event will now take place on the fourth Wednesday of every month and alternate between Pomeroy’s and Punky Brewster. — Come along to our monthly social event for a beer and a banter about political goings on and/or anything else that comes…
Vicky Southworth was a regional councillor at Environment Canterbury for 6 years (2019 to 2022). Prior to this she gained a Master of Water Resource Management from the University of Canterbury and worked as an engineering geologist with a focus on contaminated sites. Vicky will talk about the Nitrate Emergency declaration – what the issue…
NOTE: as per the decision made at our 2025 AGM, this social drinks event will now take place on the fourth Wednesday of every month and alternate between Pomeroy’s and Punky Brewster. — Come along to our monthly social event for a beer and a banter about political goings on and/or anything else that comes…
It’s a question that comes up at least once per year: should the Canterbury Socialist Society enter into a more ‘formal’ politics at the levels of local and central government? Should it establish a new party? Seek to influence an existing one? Or should it support independent candidates on a case by case basis? On…