The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago. Our events are open to all and free to attend.
July 14, 2021 7:00 pm
State of the Unions 2021: The Employment Contracts Act and its Legacy
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion
"In a political struggle of class against class, organisation is the most important weapon." -Engels --------------------------------------------- For our third annual…
June 30, 2021 7:00 pm
CSS Winter Film Series #1: Little Otik
Canterbury, Events, Film Screening
Otesánek | Little Otik by Jan Švankmajer (2000) The Canterbury Socialist Society warmly invites any and all to the first…
June 9, 2021 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
CSS Public Lecture: Lenin’s Party in New Zealand – 100 years of Leninism
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…
May 12, 2021 7:00 pm
CSS Public Lecture: Contemporary Socialism in the United States
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
"Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and…
April 14, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture: Economic Growth & The Environment
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature…
March 17, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
CSS Panel Event: Bread and Roses, or What Women Want …
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion
Some fifty years after its inauguration, second-wave feminists celebrated the ‘first’ annual International (Working) Women’s Day, having casually dropped the…
February 13, 2021 6:00 pm
CSS On Tour – William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist
Canterbury, Events, Other NZ Locations, Public Lecture
"We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism,…
February 10, 2021 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture – Useful Work vs. Useless Toil: Marx, Morris, and Alienation
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
Please note: we are working on a new schedule where "doors open" from 7pm, and ours events will start right…
January 20, 2021 7:30 pm-9:00 pm
CSS Public Lecture – Shop Floor 101: Employment Rights & Economics for Workers
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed…
December 9, 2020 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture – Harbinger of a New Society: The Paris Commune of 1871
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“Working men’s Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs…
November 11, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
The Fred Evans Memorial Lecture 2020: “Workingmen’s Rugby”
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
The Canterbury Socialist Society is pleased to confirm our second annual Fred Evans Memorial Lecture. For this lecture we invite…
October 14, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture: Such a Power In the Land as to Make the Tyrants in Wellington Tremble
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
For our October event, CSS member David Colyer will present a lecture on some of the earliest aspects of the…