Hello comrades,
We hope you are keeping well! This evening we have our second session of our Capital, and on Thursday our Care & Community group will be discussing the first half of Jodi Dean’s Comrade, with the second half to be covered in the next session.
Also! We are now running our weekly Ciorcal Comhrá upstairs in Chaplins! All levels are very very welcome!
Upcoming dates // readings & info below
TUE 17 FEB 7PM – Capital Vol. 1 @ Connolly Books
THU 19 FEB 7PM – Care & Community @ Flux Chatham St
MON 23 FEB 6PM – Ciorcal Comhrá @ Upstairs in Chaplins
TUE 24 FEB 7PM – Militarism & Neutrality @ Connolly Books
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Capital, Volume 1
Tuesday 17 February 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex St E, Temple Bar, D2
Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DRcwO6jmanINyAjSFF9S…
Couldn’t make the first session? That’s okay – catch up with the week’s reading and come along to session two! We are asking that people commit to ~90% of the sessions, but we aren’t going to be tyrants about it xx
Session Two
Required reading:
- Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of Capital (but most discussion will be on Ch 1 and 2)
- Chapter 1 & 2 of Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital
Advice for readers:
Read Ch 1 and 2, then Harvey’s Ch 1, then Ch 3, and Harvey’s Ch 2. For those who want to read more, first 200 pages of Heinrich are excellent on the current reading.
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Care & Community
Thursday 19 February 2026 / 7pm – 8pm //
Thursday 5 March 2026 / 7pm – 8pm //
Flux Studios, Chatham St, Dublin 2
Jodi Dean’s Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging
We have broken up the book reading into two parts to allow our new care and community comrades to catch up with our upcoming readings. We also hope that this will assist in deeper conversations about the content of the book over the two sessions.
Session 1 – 19 Feb
Jodi Dean, Chapter 1: “From Allies to Comrades” & Chapter 2: “The Generic Comrade” from Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging.
Session 2 – 5 Mar
Jodi Dean, Chapter 3: “Four Theses on the Comrade” & Chapter 4: “You Are Not My Comrade” from Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging.
If you need any help accessing the book, please let us know by reply to this email!
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Ciorcal Comhrá
Dé Luain 23ú Feabhra 2026 / 6in-7in //
Thuas staighre i Chaplins, Sráid Hawkins, Blá Cliath 2
Beidh ár gciorcal comhrá ar siúl gach seachtain i Chaplins. Fáilte roimh chách, agus má bhraitheann tú beagainín neirbhíseach agus mura bhfuil a fhios agat cad le rá, is féidir leat breathnú ar an gclár is deanaí de Ros na Rún agus is féidir linn chat faoi sin! x
Our ciorcal comhrá will be taking place every week upstairs in Chaplins. All are welcome, and if you are feeling a lil bit nervous and don’t know what you will chat about, you can watch a recent episode of Ros na Rún and we will chat about that! x
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Militarism + Neutrality
Tuesday 24 February 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex St E, Temple Bar, D2
Militarism & the Environment
Core Readings:
- Environmental Management, The Overlooked Contributors to Climate and Biodiversity Crises: Military Operations and Wars (12 April 2024), available at: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00267-024-01976-4.pdf
- Conflict and Environment Observatory, How the EU’s new carbon border undermines military decarbonisation (2 February 2026), available at: https://ceobs.org/how-the-eus-new-carbon-border-undermines-military-decarbonisation/
Further readings: (optional!)
- Abe Asher, The US Military Is Destroying the Planet Beyond Imagination (28 October 2025), available at: https://jacobin.com/2025/10/us-military-climate-crisis-documentary
- TNI, Climate in the Crosshairs: The planetary impact of NATO’s spending increases (8 July 2024, available at: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/climate-in-the-crosshairs
- Al Jazeera English, Militaries are fuelling the climate crisis (20 June 2024), available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFjAjO0dl3M (Video – approx 30 mins)
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Love and solidarity,
SAINTS AND SCHOLARS ☘️ 🩷