“At the anniversary celebrations of the veterans of ’51, as I mingled with those mighty people, the years fell away and I was young and strong again. But, old as most of us were, we knew full well that if called upon again, we would fight again and there would never be a white flag.”…
“No. I am no dog to be registered; neither am I a slave to be trained to fight to uphold kings, aristocrats, and rich men in luxury while the workers never have sufficient of the world’s goods to enable them to live a comfortable life.” – Harry Cooke, on refusing Compulsory Military Training, 1911. For…
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on the last Sunday of every month. This will entail closer reading and discussion of specific texts, with a focus on building a solid foundation of knowledge. As such many of the readings will be fairly…
“You will never find peace with these fascists You’ll never find friends such as we So remember that valley of Jarama And the people that’ll set that valley free. From this valley they say we are going Do not hasten to bid us adieu Even though we lost the battle at Jarama We’ll set this…
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer In the wake…
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on the last Sunday of every month. This will entail closer reading and discussion of specific texts, with a focus on building a solid foundation of knowledge. As such many of the readings will be fairly…
For our April event Canterbury Socialist Society is excited to host Lachlan, a young Cantabrian, who fought alongside the People’s Protection Units (the YPG) in Syrian Kurdistan against ISIS, and in defense of the attempt to bring democratic, regional autonomy along side sweeping social transformation to the Kurdish people. Lachlan will be providing an eye…
“We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.” -William Morris, 1895. Our February event is a public lecture on William Morris. William Morris was an artist, textile designer, craftsman, poet, novelist, and pioneering socialist. His fiction…
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on the last Sunday of every month. This will entail closer reading and discussion of specific texts, with a focus on building a solid foundation of knowledge. As such many of the readings will be fairly…
Our first event for 2019 is a free screening of the 2018 dark comedy ‘Sorry to Bother You’ written and directed by Boots Riley. Boots Riley is a musician and outspoken communist, best known from hip hop group “The Coup”. The film follows a young African-American telemarketer who adopts a white accent to succeed at…