A chairde,
Tonight our third film club will be taking place in Ballybough Community Centre! All welcome!
Next week we will be running three readings group, including our first ONLINE session, which we’re really looking forward to! The online sessions are beginning with a discussion on data centres, but we’re really really open to what topics attendees would like to focus on in the future.
We’ve also included some information below on the Neutrality Roadshow, who kindly enough gave our Militarism group a short talk last week!
This week
WED 7PM -> Neptune Frost (2021) @ Film Club // Ballybough CC
Next week
TUE 7PM –> Operation Glado // Connolly Books
WED 7PM –> Data Centres // ONLINE!!
THU 7PM –> Privatisation & Social Care // Marrowbone Books
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!
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) [LINK TO WATCH]
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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NEXT WEEK!
Militarism and Neutrality #4
Tuesday 5 August 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex Street East, Dublin 2
Operation Gladio
Core Reading
- Daniel Singer, ‘The Gladiators’ (10 Dec 1990) https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/gladiators/
- Clare Pedrick, ‘CIA Organized Secret Army in Western Europe’ (14 Nov 1990) for the Washington Post available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20230324205950/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/11/14/cia-organized-secret-army-in-western-europe/e0305101-97b9-4494-bc18-d89f42497d85/
- Excerpts from Daniele Ganser, “NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe” (2004) https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSl1Am_xJ_qmvACp4yaNLFl79SamI3QBZoIoK7zpKU02YRQ6U6B2-A7Fv84NgloX3CyzagUqCbIan2z/pub
Further Reading (Optional background info!)
- The Cold War channel ‘Operation Gladio: How the West Wanted to Defend against the USSR’ (15mins) https://youtu.be/tIat4tYtG94?si=3yHAQoP_BI2YZRob and part 2 (23mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbC_t3IBEpI
- BBC 2, ‘Timewatch’ documentary on Gladio (1992) (2hrs 25mins) available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHXjO8wHsA&t=2307s
- CTH Zurich’s Parallel History Project’s chronology of events https://phpisn.ethz.ch/lory1.ethz.ch/collections/coll_gladio/chronology76c1.html?navinfo=15301
- Philip Willan, ‘Obituary: Paolo Emilio Taviani’ (21 Jun 2001) https://web.archive.org/web/20221222022712/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jun/21/guardianobituaries.philipwillan
- Philip Willan, ‘US supported anti-left terror in Italy’ (24 Jun 2000) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/24/terrorism
- European Parliament resolution on Gladio (22 Nov 1990) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/European_Parliament_resolution_on_Gladio
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Online Reading Group #1
Wednesday 6 August July 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
ONLINE @ Zoom
Data Centres
- Not Here, Not Anywhere, Irish Data Centres: An Introduction. Available at: https://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/news-events/irish-data-centres-an-introduction-by-no
- Becca Inglis, We Need Socialist to Fix Our Broken Internet. Available at: https://www.huckmag.com/article/we-need-socialism-to-fix-our-broken-internet
- Evgeny Morozov, Socialize the Data Centres! Available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Evgeny-Morozov-Socialize-the-Data-Centres-NLR-91-January-February-2015.pdf
Further Reading
- James Bridle, Power in a Networked World. Available at: https://exposingtheinvisible.org/en/interviews/james-power-in-a-networked-world/
Care and Community #4
Thursday 7 August 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Marrowbone Books, 78 The Coombe, Dublin 8
Privatisation and Social Care
- Neoliberalism, austerity, and social work. Available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/DOC-20250727-WA0003.pdf
- Bob Hudson, Adult Social Care: Is Privatisation Irreversible? Available at: https://sochealth.co.uk/2018/02/15/adult-social-care-privatisation-irreversible/
- James Graham, Socialism Needs Disability Justice. Available at: https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/socialism-needs-disability-justice/
Further Reading
- Jesse Chase, Community Care in the Revolution. Available at: https://hoodcommunist.org/2020/11/12/community-care-in-the-revolution/amp/
Upcoming Neutrality Roadshows!
The Neutrality Roadshow has some upcoming talks throughout August and September which might be of interest to a few Saints & Scholaríní.
- Wednesday 6th August @ 7pm in Clarke’s City Arms, Stoneybatter, D7T
- Thursday 14th /Friday 15th – Newry
- Monday 25th – Gort, Co. Galway
- Tuesday 26th – Clifton, Co. Galway
- Wednesday 27th – Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
- Friday 29th – New Ross, Co. Wexford
More details on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/neutrality_now/
Speakers from the Neutrality Roadshow will also be contributing (in a personal capacity) to neutrality events hosted by Forward Ireland on the following dates:
- Thursday 7 August @ 7pm in Naomh Fíonnbarra Clubhouse, D7
- Thursday 21st August @ 7pm in Ballybough Community Centre, D3
- Thursday 28 August @ 7pm in F2 Centre, Reuben Plaza, Rialto, D8
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Love and solidarity,
SAINTS AND SCHOLARS ☘️ 🩷