Federation of Socialist Societies

The socialist society hosts regular educational and social events in Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago. Our events are open to all and free to attend.

120 Event(s) Found

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

Space Academy

“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

Space Academy

"Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and…

CSS Public Lecture: Economic Growth & The Environment

April 14, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm

Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture

Space Academy

“Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature…

CSS Panel Event: Bread and Roses, or What Women Want …

March 17, 2021 7:30 pm-9:30 pm

Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion

Space Academy

Some fifty years after its inauguration, second-wave feminists celebrated the ‘first’ annual International (Working) Women’s Day, having casually dropped the…

CSS On Tour – William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist

February 13, 2021 6:00 pm

Canterbury, Events, Other NZ Locations, Public Lecture

Craftwork Brewery

"We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism,…

CSS Public Lecture – Useful Work vs. Useless Toil: Marx, Morris, and Alienation

February 10, 2021 7:00 pm-8:30 pm

Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture

Space Academy

Please note: we are working on a new schedule where "doors open" from 7pm, and ours events will start right…

CSS Public Lecture – Shop Floor 101: Employment Rights & Economics for Workers

January 20, 2021 7:30 pm-9:00 pm

Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture

Space Academy

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed…

CSS Public Lecture – Harbinger of a New Society: The Paris Commune of 1871

December 9, 2020 7:30 pm-9:30 pm

Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture

Space Academy

“Working men’s Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs…

The Fred Evans Memorial Lecture 2020: “Workingmen’s Rugby”

November 11, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm

Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture

Space Academy

The Canterbury Socialist Society is pleased to confirm our second annual Fred Evans Memorial Lecture. For this lecture we invite…

CSS Public Lecture: Such a Power In the Land as to Make the Tyrants in Wellington Tremble

October 14, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm

Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture

Space Academy

For our October event, CSS member David Colyer will present a lecture on some of the earliest aspects of the…

CSS State of the Unions: Elections & Unionism

September 23, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm

Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion

Space Academy

"...against this collective power of the propertied classes the working class cannot act, as a class, except by constituting itself…

A Movement Divided: British Socialism Before & During WW1

September 9, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm

Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture

Space Academy

"War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be…

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