In 1988 an army of mainly black Cuban and Angolan soldiers won a strategic victory at Cuito Cuanavale in Southern Angola. They fought the cream of the South African army to a standstill, a feat that Nelson Mandela hailed as being critical to the collapse of the apartheid regime. — This talk will discuss the…
For our second educational event of 2023, the Canterbury Socialist Society presents “Socialism for Dummies”. We hope this will be an opportunity for any curious, confused, unclear, or bamboozled members and supporters to get some clarification – or at least one version of it – to help progress conversations & understanding on the topic of…
That’s right! We’re doing something a little different this International Women’s Day! Courtney, Hayley, and Sionainn of the CSS executive and CSS member at large Angela have put their brains together to bring you five rounds of questions spanning history and politics, science, mythology, music, film, and more! The quizmistresses have worked hard to ensure…
“In machinery, knowledge appears as alien, external to him; and living labour as subsumed under self-activating objectified labour. The worker appears as superfluous to the extent that his action is not determined by capital’s requirements.” – Karl Marx Canterbury Socialist Society are excited to offer this bonus event to our regular schedule with a guest…
Strikes and the origins of neoliberalism in Aotearoa in the 1970s and 1980s. The Canterbury Socialist Society is pleased to confirm our 2022 Fred Evans Memorial Lecture. For this lecture we invite a theorist, organiser, or other person of interest to speak on a topic pertaining to their expertise. Fred Evans was a prominent…
The New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies would like to invite the public to our first-ever nationwide online presentation. The topic of discussion is “Inspiration and Betrayal: The Second International (1889-1914) and its Significance Today” and will be hosted by our comrade from the UK, Ben Lewis. This event has been put together in collaboration…
The Canterbury Socialist Society is very excited to announce the schedule for our programme for the next four months (May through August), the “Winter of Discontent“. To celebrate reaching 100 members in the Federation of Socialist Societies we have organised a minimum of 16 free public events over the next four months. These include: public lectures and discussions,…
“…we need something far more vulgar, far more dangerous and far more banal at the same time: a political party, for such an organisation for the international organisation of the working class in this farmyard presupposes something that can contest power where it apparently resides. This is, unfortunately, the House of Parliament where ugly and…
“The common-sense notion that ‘There is a time and place for everything’ gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.” -David Harvey, The Condition of Post Modernity For our first public lecture of 2022 we welcome Quentin Findlay to present on the rise…
“However specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would, in effect, be found to be prejudicial to their morals and happiness; it would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants in agriculture and other laborious employments to…