A chairde,
We have a busy week ahead of us, with our Militariam & Neutrality, Property, Land & Ecology, and Care & Community groups running tomorrow Tuesday through Thursday.
We’ll be crossing halfway line of our summer reading groups this week. It’s been great so far, and it’s been super meeting everyone! If you haven’t attended a meeting yet, don’t feel like you can’t still come along! We’d love to see you!
This week
TUE 7PM –> NATO and Imperialism // Connolly Books
WED 7PM –> Reunificiation and the Environment // FLUX Chatham St
THU 8PM –> Police and Prison Abolition // Marrowbone Books
Next week
WED 7PM -> Neptune Frost (2021) @ Film Club // Ballybough CC
P.S. Always and forever, if you have one article read out of a group’s reading list, you’re set to attend! So please don’t be stressing about coming if you haven’t managed to get through the full readings.
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THIS WEEK!
Militarism and Neutrality #3
Tuesday 22 July 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex Street East, Dublin 2
NATO and Imperialism
This session will begin with a short talk about the current neutrality campaign by Róisín of the Neutrality Roadshow!
Core Reading
- Ann Garrison, ‘NATO was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-Colonial Movements Worldwide’ (13 April 2025), available at: https://janataweekly.org/nato-was-founded-to-crush-communist-socialist-and-anti-colonial-movements-worldwide/
- Josefina L. Martínez and Diego Lotito, ‘NATO and Imperialist Military Expansionism’ (17 July 2022), available at: https://www.leftvoice.org/nato-and-imperialist-military-expansionism/
- Lorna Bogue, ‘No, Ireland Shouldn’t Join NATO’ (10 April 2023), available at: https://jacobin.com/2023/10/ireland-nato-neutrality-forum-geopolitics-military
Further Reading (optional)
- Abayomi Azikiwe, ‘Our Case Against NATO: Africans and the Struggle Against Imperialism’ (19 April 2022), available at: https://blackagendareport.com/our-case-against-nato-africans-and-struggle-against-imperialism
- John Catalinotto, ‘NATO polices the world for imperialism: A look at its roots’ (5 June 2024), available at: https://www.workers.org/2024/06/79046/
- Jonathan Stevenson, ‘Ireland’s Future: United, European and in NATO’ (19 February 2025), available at: https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/survival-online/2025/02/irelands-future-united-european-and-in-nato/
- Podcast: David Swanson: “NATO: What You Need to Know” (27 mins),available at: https://globalconnectionstelevision.buzzsprout.com/1628122/episodes/15359709
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Property, Land and Ecology #3
Wednesday 23 July 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Flux Studios, 4 Chatham Row, Dublin 2
Reunification and the Environment
- Seán Fearon, “The Economic Case for Irish Reunification, for People and Planet”. Rundale. Available at: https://www.rundale.org/2024/10/31/the-economic-case-for-irish-reunification-for-people-and-planet/
- Lynda Sullivan, “Environmental Justice Before, During and After a United Ireland”. Z. Available at: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/environmental-justice-before-during-and-after-a-united-ireland/.
- Seán Fearon, “A Roadmap to Eco-Social Transformation on the Island of Ireland”. Z. Available at: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reunification-a-roadmap-to-eco-social-transformation-on-the-island-of-ireland/
Care and Community #3
Thursday 24 July 2025 / 8pm-9pm //
Marrowbone Books, 78 The Coombe, Dublin 8
Police and Prison Abolition
- Ruairi-Santiago McBride, “Growing abolition in Ireland”. Rundale. Available at: https://www.rundale.org/2025/01/30/growing-abolition-in-ireland/.
- Sarah Lamble, “Practising everyday abolition”. Abolitionist Futures. Available at: https://abolitionistfutures.com/latest-news/practising-everyday-abolition [Audio version also available]
- Jennifer Fleetwood, “Defunding the police in the UK: Critical questions and practical suggestions”. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hojo.12468.
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NEXT WEEK!
Film Club #3
Wednesday 30 July 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Ballybough Community Centre, 49 Ballybough Rd, Dublin 3
[FYI this is not a screening! Just a chat!]
Neptune Frost (dir. Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, 2021)
A group of escaped coltan miners forms an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective in the hilltops of Burundi. They soon attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime that’s exploiting the region’s natural resources — and its people.
Suggested reading: “Neptune Frost, the Afrofuturist Musical Imagining Life Beyond Capitalism: Interview with Williams & Uzeyman” – Xuanlin Tham. Available at: https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/14495/neptune-frost-afrofuturist-musical-anisia-uzeyman-saul-williams-interview
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Love and solidarity,
SAINTS AND SCHOLARS ☘️ 🩷