“If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial…
Canterbury Socialist Society presents “Workers Against War” – a public lecture on this history of the Workers’ Movement opposition to the First World War. Every year ANZAC Day commemorations seem more like war propaganda than the last – and we aim to provide a touch of counter history: that of sedition, desertion, rebellion, refusal, and…
We will be at Pomeroy’s Old Brewery Inn from 7pm. Pints and politics, beer and banter, martinis and marxism, negri and a negroni. All welcome! Discussion may tend towards the fast approaching guest lecture event for March – CSS Guest Lecture: The Working Day & Surplus Value. In what ways do our own experiences of work corroborate the…
As usual our social event is the third Thursday of the month from 7pm at Pomeroy’s Old Brewery Inn on the corner of Kilmore & Fitzgerald. An informal ‘beer and banter’ ‘wine and a whinge’ ‘prosecco and politics’ event, attendees are encouraged – if they’re so inclined – to bring along an article, book, podcast…
“As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour. Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living…
The February event of the Canterbury Socialist Society is a screening of the Coen brothers’ film ‘Hail, Caesar!’. This satire lampoons the history of the studio era of Hollywood, the Hollywood Blacklist, Red Scare, and House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). During the 1930s, in response to the Great Depression and the rise of Fascism,…
According to this new social-sexual contract, proletarian women became for male workers the substitute for the land lost to the enclosures, their most basic means of reproduction, and a communal good anyone could appropriate and use at will. Echoes of this ‘primitive appropriation’ can be heard in the concept of the common woman which in…
Last call! “Working deer of all countries, unite! You have nothing to lose but your reins.” After a bit over half a year of successful events this is our final social drinks evening of 2017. This is a good opportunity to meet and greet, or get to know each other in a fun social setting….
As our last event of the year, aside from monthly drinks, is a screening of Raoul Peck’s 2017 biopic of the young Karl Marx, Frederich Engels, and Jenny Marx as they agitate and are subsequently chased out of the countries of Europe – between Paris, Brussels, and London. The film Trailer can be viewed here:…
NZ’s road to socialism and the Canterbury Socialist Society are co-hosting this event to launch a new project to record oral histories of the Communist movement, and to mark the 100th Anniversary of the October Revolution, as a key event in the establishment of a Communist movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. The evening will begin with a panel…