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…
The far right is back and is bigger than ever. So, it seems like it’s a good time to look back on how local anti-fascist campaigners have opposed the far right in the past. In this month’s talk, anti fascist activist Mark will talk about the rise of the New Zealand National Front in the…
The passing of American hegemony is giving rise to a new kind of global order — one that is neither unipolar nor bipolar, and that goes beyond what is conventionally described as multipolarity. This talk argues that we are entering a “multiplex” world: a multi-regional order in which regions play an increasingly important role, not…
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…
At the 2025 Labour Party conference, Council of Trade Unions (CTU) President Sandra Grey challenged Labour to “give workers a reason to vote for” them by delivering fundamental, systemic change. She said that Aotearoa New Zealand’s “pavlova paradise” has been “eaten up by the rich,” laying the blame squarely at the feet of the 4th…