Hello comrades,
We’re back in full swing, with our Capital reading group kicking off tomorrow evening in Connolly Books, and Care & Community making its return on Thursday. We also, very excitingly, are collaborating with Bohs Environmental Justice Film Festival on a screening and panel discussion on Friday. All the info is available below, and we are always always happy and delighted to see you new faces! xox
Upcoming dates // readings & info below
TUE 3 FEB 7PM – Capital Vol. 1 @ Connolly Books
THU 5 FEB 7PM – Care & Community @ Flux Chatham St
FRI 6 FEB 7PM – Koyaanisqatsi screening with Bohs Environmental Justice Film Festival
MON 9 FEB 6PM – Ciorcal Comhrá @ Upstairs in Chaplins
TUE 10 FEB 7PM – Militarism & Neutrality @ Connolly Books
THU 12 FEB 7PM – Film Club @ Marrowbone Books
THU 19 FEB 7PM – Care & Community read a book! (Info below!)
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Capital, Volume 1
Tuesday 3 February 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex St E, Temple Bar, D2
Sign up form: https://forms.gle/gDCy18k3MA3ivs6Z9
Can’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 One
Required reading:
- Chapter 1 of Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital
(For future weeks we will also issue an annotated guide to the original text, but we’re gonna take a nice easy[ier] start!)
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Care & Community
Thursday 5 February 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Flux Studios, Chatham St, Dublin 2
The Radical Potential of Friendship
Required reading:
- Carla Bergman, “Friendship, Freedom, Ethics, Affinity” from Joyful Militancy: Building Resistance in Toxic Times. Available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Jo…
- Laura C. Forster & Joel White, “Periodising Friendship” from Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities. Available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Ex…
- Tom Cutterham, “Just Friends” in The New Inquiry. Available at: https://thenewinquiry.com/just-friends/
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Thursday 19 February 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Flux Studios, Chatham St, Dublin 2
Jodi Dean’s Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging
While we usually focus on reading articles in our groups, we decided that we’d dig into this (quite short) book for this meeting. If you need any help accessing the book, please let us know by reply to this email!
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Film Club
This Friday, 6th Feb, as part of a collaboration between ourselves and the Bohemian Environmental Justice Film Festival, there will be a screening of
Koyaanisqatsi in the Spark Lab in Phibsboro Tower.
The film will be followed by a short panel discussion about Ireland, our natural world, and technological developments.
Tickets are available on the BEFF website (beff.ie)!
Alongside this, our next Film Club will discuss Koyaanisqatsi, with the details and suggested readings just below! Hopefully see you on Friday, and then again on the 12th!
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Thursday 12 February 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Marrowbone Books, 78 The Coombe, D8
Koyaanisqatsi (dir. Godfrey Reggio, 1982) [LINK]
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
Suggested reading
- Life Out Of Balance – an interview with Godfrey Reggio: https://thegreatnorthernfestival.com/life-out-of-balance/
- “What Ireland’s Data Center Crisis Means for the EU’s AI Sovereignty Plans”, Louis Boyd-Madsen, techpolicy press, 2025: https://www.techpolicy.press/what-irelands-data-center-crisi…
Further viewing: The other two films in the Qatsi trilogy: Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi, both dir. Godfrey Reggio, 1988 and 2002.
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Ciorcal Comhrá
Dé Luain 9ú Feabhra 2026 / 6in-7in //
Thuas staighre i Chaplins, Sráid Hawkins, Blá Cliath 2
Our first ciorcal comhrá will be taking place this day 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
Beidh ár gcéad chiorcal comhrá ar siúl an tseachtain seo chugainn. 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
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Militarism + Neutrality
Tuesday 10 February 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex St E, Temple Bar, D2
EU Militarisation: “Arming for peace”?
Core Readings:
- Colin Gannon, The European Union Is embracing militarization (25 March 2024), available at: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/european-union-militarization-austerity-defense
- Niamh Ní Bhriain, The EU is on a war path (23 June 2025), available at: https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-eu-is-on-a-war-path
- Irish Independent, Explainer: Ireland joins PESCO… is it the start of an EU army? (17 December 2017), available at: https://archive.ph/xfr5h
Further readings: (optional!)
- European Parliament Briefing, ReArm Europe Plan/Readiness 2030 (April 2025), available at: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2025/769566/EPRS_BRI(2025)769566_EN.pdf
- The Journal, Irish general in top EU role: Military build-up is not about war – it’s about sustaining peace (22 January 2026), available at: https://www.thejournal.ie/general-sean-clancy-eumc-european-union-deterence-for-war-6932137-Jan2026/
- Video: EU Commission, How to improve military mobility in the EU (20 November 2025), available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs63TrYwFxA
- Radio Clip: RTE Radio 1, Debate on PESCO: Ger Aherne, Richard Boyd Barrett TD, Ben Tonra (10 December 2017), available at: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/21284743/
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Love and solidarity,
SAINTS AND SCHOLARS ☘️ 🩷
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