
Otago Socialist Society Re-Launch Event – William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist
August 6, 2022 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” -William Morris…

Matter, Myth, & Memory
July 10, 2022 6:00 pm
“Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and…

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 Public Lecture: What Happened to Labour? Gramsci, Postmodernism, and the Neoliberal Turn
February 9, 2022 7:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which…

WSS Public Lecture: “Capitalist Realism” – Is there no alternative?
February 1, 2022 6:00 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
“Emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable…

CSS Public Lecture: The Limits of Education under Capitalism
December 8, 2021 7:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion, Public Lecture
"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An…

An Epoch of Unrest // WSS Public Lecture on the Legacy of William Morris
December 1, 2021 6:00 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
Getting off the ground during these times has proved to be a challenge. Still, with such phenomenal support and solidarity…

CSS Book Launch & Public Lecture: The Unrest of 2011, One Decade On.
November 11, 2021 7:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
In 2011 a wave of revolution began in Tunisia and then spread across North Africa and the Middle East. In…

CSS Public Lecture – Solitude or Solidarity: Marxism and Postcolonial Theory
October 13, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
"The day we can’t get our hands on the ballot boxes before the vote is counted we’re done for,’ Trueba…

CSS Public Lecture: The Rise of Modi and the Situation in India
August 11, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
For our 2021 August event the Canterbury Socialist Society is pleased to host a guest lecture from Josephine Varghese. Josephine…

CSS Public Lecture: Lenin’s Party in New Zealand – 100 years of Leninism
June 9, 2021 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistical philistines, who have brought their “civilisation” with them from England and keep it…

CSS Public Lecture: Contemporary Socialism in the United States
May 12, 2021 7:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
"Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and…