CSS Public Lecture – They Rule: How capital dominates politics today
July 12, 2023 6:00 pm
"The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."…
CSS Public Lecture: Anarchism for Dummies
June 14, 2023 6:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion
Following the success of our first 'Socialism for Dummies' event earlier this year, the CSS brings you round two ...…
CSS Public Lecture: Pro Patria Mori? Socialist Opposition to the First World War in Christchurch
April 12, 2023 6:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
"This war...WILL END CAPITALISM! Do you get that? After capitalism, what? SOCIALISM!" This quote from trade unionist Ted Howard, written…
NZFSS Online Seminar – Significant Emotions w Ashley Frawley
April 5, 2023 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Otago, Other NZ Locations, Public Lecture, Wellington
“Nietzsche already observed that, after the death of God, health rose to divine status. If a horizon of meaning extended…
CSS Bonus Event – Tech Won’t Save Us, with guest speaker Paris Marx
March 22, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
"In machinery, knowledge appears as alien, external to him; and living labour as subsumed under self-activating objectified labour. The worker…
CSS Event: International Women’s Day Quiz Night
March 8, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
That's right! We're doing something a little different this International Women's Day! Courtney, Hayley, and Sionainn of the CSS executive…
CSS Public Lecture: “Socialism for Dummies”
February 8, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion, Public Lecture
For our second educational event of 2023, the Canterbury Socialist Society presents "Socialism for Dummies". We hope this will be…
CSS Public Lecture: Crushing Apartheid – Breaking the Back of Pretoria’s Regime
January 18, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
In 1988 an army of mainly black Cuban and Angolan soldiers won a strategic victory at Cuito Cuanavale in Southern…
The Fred Evans Memorial Lecture 2022: Lessons from the Picket Line
November 9, 2022 6:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
Strikes and the origins of neoliberalism in Aotearoa in the 1970s and 1980s. The Canterbury Socialist Society is pleased…
Inspiration and Betrayal: The Second International (1889-1914) and its Significance Today
September 28, 2022 6:30 pm
Canterbury, Otago, Other NZ Locations, Public Lecture, Wellington
The New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies would like to invite the public to our first-ever nationwide online presentation. The…
Winter of Discontent: Canterbury Socialist Society Winter Programme May – August 2022
May 1, 2022 12:00 am-August 28, 2022 12:00 am
Canterbury, Film Screening, Interview, Open Discussion, Panel Discussion, Public Lecture
The Canterbury Socialist Society is very excited to announce the schedule for our programme for the next four months (May…
CSS Roundtable Discussion: What are we to do?
April 13, 2022 7:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Open Discussion
"...we need something far more vulgar, far more dangerous and far more banal at the same time: a political party,…