EVENTS
Every month the Canterbury Socialist Society hosts one educational event and one social event. Our events are free, and all are welcome.
December 9, 2020 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture – Harbinger of a New Society: The Paris Commune of 1871
“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”
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
For our October event, CSS member David Colyer will present a lecture on some of the earliest aspects of the…
September 23, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS State of the Unions: Elections & Unionism
"...against this collective power of the propertied classes the working class cannot act, as a class, except by constituting itself…
September 9, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
A Movement Divided: British Socialism Before & During WW1
"War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be…
July 8, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Round Table Discussion: Covid, Crisis, Economic Responses
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." -Lenin Similar to our previous "show and…
June 10, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Film Screening: The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and…
March 17, 2020 12:00 am-12:00 am
CANCELLED: CSS Interview With Caleb Cain: Countering the Far-Right
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the developing situation with COVID-19 and travel restrictions Caleb has needed to return to the United…
March 12, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Double Feature: The Industrial Workers of the World
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger…
February 11, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture: Climate and Capitalism
Climate and Capitalism: A Public Lecture on Climate Change and Capitalism “It seems to be easier for us today to…
January 29, 2020 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Discussion Evening: Rapprochement 2020
“Our immediate aim should be chiefly educational… with a view to dealing with the crisis if it should come in…
December 11, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Film Screening: The Death of Stalin (2017)
"It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and…