Hello comrades,
Our weekly Ciorcal is running again tonight, Capital’s next session is tomorrow, and Militarism & Neutrality will be back for the summer season next week!
Very excitingly our Militarism & Neutrality group are also hosting a screening of ‘Non-aligned Scenes from the Labudović Reels’ with panel discussion on Yugoslavia & the Non-Aligned Movement on the 15h of May. Tickets are free and can be found on our Eventbrite! Hope to see you there, a chairde!
Upcoming dates // readings & info below
Mon 27 Apr 6PM – Ciorcal Comhrá @ Upstairs in Chaplins
Tue 28 Apr 7PM – Capital Vol. 1 @ Connolly Books
Tue 5 May 7PM – Militarism & Neutrality @ Connolly Books
Fri 15 May 6PM – Screening of ‘Non-aligned Scenes from the Labudović Reels’ @ Hamilton Building, TCD
Love and solidarity,
SAINTS AND SCHOLARS ☘️ 🩷
Screening: “Non-aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels”
A special screening of ‘NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS’ (2022), with panel discussion on Yugoslavia & the Non-Aligned Movement.
Saints & Scholars Militarism and Neutrality club present a documentary screening and panel discussion on the history of Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement.
Please join us on Friday 15 May in the Joly theatre, Hamilton building, Trinity College Dublin from 5.45 pm to talk international solidarity and resistance, decolonisation, and enduring lessons from Yugoslavia’s role in the Non-Aligned Movement
Tickets available on Eventbrite.
Running Order:
- 5.45pm – Doors open
- 6.00pm – Short introduction from Petra Matić
- 6.15pm-7.00pm – Panel discussion on Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement chaired by Dr Harun Šiljak
- 7.00pm-8.45pm – Screening of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
Documentary description:
Filmmaker Mila Turajlić was born in Belgrade, and grew up singing patriotic songs extolling Yugoslav leader Josep Broz Tito. The images that populated her “Yugoslavia of the mind” came largely from government newsreels—and the most iconic of those were shot by Stevan Labudović.
In NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS, Turajlić delves into Labudović’s work documenting the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement, a largely Yugoslav-led bloc including many decolonizing nations that stood apart from both East and West during the Cold War.
What begins as an exploration of newsreel footage of the 1961 Non-Aligned summit in Belgrade becomes a love letter to a vanished country and its hopes for the future, a history of the early days of the Non-Aligned Movement, and a document of the affinity between two filmmakers—Turajlić, in her forties, and Labudović, nearing 90.
Shot in Belgrade, New York, and Algeria, and featuring archival footage from around the globe filmed by Labudović, this is a subtle, complex documentary, adroitly blending personal and global histories.
Ciorcal Comhrá
Dé Luain 27ú Aibreán 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, and ná bí buartha, you have enough Irish! x
Capital, Volume 1
Tuesday 28 April 2026 / 7pm-8.30pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex St E, Temple Bar, D2
Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DRcwO6jmanINyAjSFF9S…
Session Six
Required reading:
- Chapters 12, 13, 14 of Capital
- + corresponding Harvey chapter – Ch 6 “Relative Surplus-Value”
Militarism & Neutrality
Tuesday 5 May 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex Street East, Dublin 2
The Sea, The Sea (Maritime Security & subsea cables)
Core readings:
- Le Monde, Ireland, the weak link in Europe’s defence (19 April 2026), available at: https://archive.li/2026.04.20-063857/https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/04/19/ireland-the-weak-link-in-europe-s-defense_6752596_4.html
- Department of Defence, Valentia Island Subsea Cable Symposium Speech – Minister Helen McEntee TD (23 April 2026), available at: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-defence/speeches/valentia-island-subsea-cable-symposium-speech-minister-for-defence-helen-mcentee-td/
- CNBC, How A Million Miles Of Undersea Cables Power The Internet — And Now AI (8 November 2025), available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz5XRyo5fiw [Video – 22 mins]
Further readings: (optional!)
- Department of Defence, National Maritime Security Strategy 2026–2030 (25 February 2026), available at: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-defence/publications/national-maritime-security-strategy-20262030/
- Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Safeguarding Subsea Cables: Protecting Cyber Infrastructure amid Great Power Competition (August 2024), available at: https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2024-08/240816_Runde_Subsea_Cables.pdf
- International Cable Protection Committee, How do Subsea Cables get Cut?: The International Cable Protection Committee Responds to Recent Subsea Cable Damage in the Baltic Sea (27 November 2024), available at: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241127490719/en/How-do-Subsea-Cables-get-Cut
- Submarine Cable Networks, Statistics on Subsea Cable Fault and Repair (28 June 2025), available at: https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/nv/insights/statistics-on-subsea-cable-fault-and-repair