EVENTS
Every month the Canterbury Socialist Society hosts one educational event and one social event. Our events are free, and all are welcome. Our rolling social event occurs on the third Thursday of each month at Pomeroy’s Pub from 7pm.
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…
November 13, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Fred Evans Memorial Lecture: Socialism & the Early Labour Party
The Canterbury Socialist Society is excited to announce our first annual Fred Evans Memorial Lecture. For this lecture we invite…
October 9, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Panel Discussion: State of the Unions
"It is always somewhat perplexing and sometimes shocking to hear, from respected unionists, a lack of concern for the struggle…
September 11, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
POSTPONED: CSS Public Lecture: Solitude or Solidarity
[Solitude or Solidarity: On Postcolonialism and Marxism] "The day we can’t get our hands on the ballot boxes before the…
September 11, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Open Discussion: What do we mean when we talk about socialism?
“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice…
August 14, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS & Unions Canterbury Film Screening: 1951
"At the anniversary celebrations of the veterans of '51, as I mingled with those mighty people, the years fell away…
July 10, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture: Local Legacies of Radicalism
"No. I am no dog to be registered; neither am I a slave to be trained to fight to uphold…