“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…
Please note: we are working on a new schedule where “doors open” from 7pm, and ours events will start right on 7.30pm. This is to avoid going too late in the evening. “In short, it has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself – a convenient…
The Canterbury Socialist Society is pleased to confirm our second annual Fred Evans Memorial Lecture. For this lecture we invite a theorist, organiser, or other person of interest to speak on a topic pertaining to their expertise. Fred Evans was a prominent unionist during a pivotal moment in New Zealand labour history – the Waihi…
“War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war” -Keir Hardie “I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; ‘Do your…
“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…
“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…