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…
The Alliance Party, once a strong force in Aotearoa’s electoral landscape, has returned from a decade in hibernation to contest the Christchurch local body elections. Tom Roud, a founding member of the Canterbury Socialist Society, has decided to throw his hat in the ring, running as the Alliance’s candidate for Council in Christchurch’s Central Ward;…
In many ways, the 2020’s seems further away from the ‘end of history’ than the 1920’s. This has led some commentators to characterise our current moment as ‘the end of the end of history’. Indeed, after declining in the 1990’s and early 2000’s, both the number of conflicts and conflict deaths has increased in recent…
Given that the Aotearoa | New Zealand government is seeking to delegitimise Te Tiriti o Waitangi and disembed other elements of Te Ao Māori, and given the recent opposition to such actions by Māori and Tangata Tiriti both separately and together, the CSS has decided to kick its 2024 programme of events off with another…