The Canterbury Socialist Society welcomes you to our famous Christmas Quiz. Get your team together or join as an individual, be ready for a night of fun! Doors open at 6:30pm at Space Academy, quiz starts 7pm sharp. Registrations are a must! Sign up via the humanitix link here.
As per the decision at our AGM we will be having these social events on the fourth Wednesday of every month, and alternate between Pomeroy’s and Punky Brewster. Our regular monthly lowkey social event. Come along for a beer and a banter about political goings on, and anything else that comes to mind. You can…
On 14 February 1951, waterside workers rejected the shipowners’ wage offer and refused to work overtime. Within two weeks the government had deregistered their union, passed emergency regulations making it a crime to publicly support the union or provide funds, and sent the military onto wharves to do watersiders’ work. For five months, 14,000 watersiders,…
Education in New Zealand is in a state of crisis. It is fighting a hostile government that does not believe in public education. From broad sweeping curriculum changes, privatisation and union busting through charter schools, a worsening of teachers’ conditions, and the larger social issues facing youth, schools are a focal point of capitalist society’s…
Kia ora koutou, Join Teachers for Palestine Aotearoa and Wellington Socialist Society and get down to Bedlam and Squalor after the Palestine hīkoi on October 4th – bring your laptops! Continual resistence is imperative if we are to finally consign this genocide to the history books, after it has been allowed to victimise the steadfast…
Kia ora Comrades, Come one, come all to our monthly(ish) social drinks. Whether you’re a member or a fellow traveller, come and have a drink. To sweeten the deal during this cost of living “crises” (or is it just capitalism?) we’ll even put on a tab so you can have a round on us! So…
The son of a wealthy British peer, Ivor Montagu (1904–1984) rebelled against his privileged background, becoming a pioneer of film culture, a collaborator of two of the most famous directors of the era, an activist documentary maker and an ardent supporter of Soviet communism. He lobbied for Trotsky to be granted asylum in the UK…
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;…
“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.” ― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993). Internationalism…
‘In world market crises, all the contradictions of bourgeois production erupt collectively; in particular crises (particular in their content and in extent) the eruptions are only sporadically, isolated and one-sided.’ Theories of Surplus Value – Karl Marx What happens when capitalism reaches its limits? Can the system sustain itself indefinitely, or is collapse built into…