EVENTS
Every month the Canterbury Socialist Society hosts one educational event and one social event. Our events are free, and all are welcome.
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…
June 12, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Film Screening: Land and Freedom (1995)
“You will never find peace with these fascists You'll never find friends such as we So remember that valley of…
May 8, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture: ¡No pasarán! – The Far Right Today
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride…
April 28, 2019 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Canterbury Socialist Society Sunday Morning Reading Group
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on…
April 10, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture: Homage to Rojava
For our April event Canterbury Socialist Society is excited to host Lachlan, a young Cantabrian, who fought alongside the People's…