Hello chickatees and 100% faithfuls,We’re super super excited to be back! Tomorrow our Housing Group is kicking off for its meeting. It’s gonna be good!
Next week the Militarism & Neutrality gang will be back, and Care & Community will be back in a fortnight to chat about isolation, alienation and social media. :(( :))
Newcomers are always always welcome, but if you’ve been thinking about coming along for a little while, the first week back is always a nice week to come meet everyone!
Upcoming dates // readings & info below
Wed 9 September 7PM – CATU x S&S @ Kirkos
Tue 15 September 7PM – Militarism & Neutrality @ Connolly Books
Thu 24 September 7PM – Care & Community @ Flux Studios
Love and solidarity,
SAINTS AND SCHOLARS ☘️ 🩷
CATU v S&S – In Defence of Housing
Wednesday 9 September 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Kirkos, Little Green Street, Dublin 7
Against the Commodification of Housing
Readings:
- Book Chapter: ‘Chapter 1 – Against the Commodification of Housing’, in David Madden & Peter Marcuse, In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Verso, 2016), available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Intro-Chapter-1.pdf
- Article: Colin Gannon, Ireland’s Housing Crisis Is an Indictment of Irish Capitalism (6 May 2023), available at: https://archive.is/20231125152722/https://jacobin.com/2023/05/ireland-housing-crisis-policy-financialization
- Manifesto: People’s Land Policy, A Manifesto for Land Justice (3rd edn, July 2025), available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/manifesto_low-res_d-2.pdf
- Song: Gender Chores, Night in the Woods (23 March 2021), available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kisafuMYlSw&list=RDkisafuMYlSw&start_radio=1
Militarism & Neutrality
Tuesday 15 September 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex Street East, Dublin 2
Ireland and the EU Presidency
Core reading:
- Éire 2026, Irish Presidency 2026 Priorities: Security, available at: https://irish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/en/programme/priority-security/
- Emmet Foley & Christian Kaunert, Ireland and European intelligence: trust and mistrust in Europe’s weak link? (3 August 2026), available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Ireland-and-European-intelligence-trust-and-mistrust-in-Europe-s-weak-link-.pdf
- Patrick Bresnihan, Europe needs to start treating the climate emergency as a threat to our national security (11 August 2026), available at: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/11/opinion-europe-needs-to-start-treating-the-climate-emergency-as-a-threat-to-our-national-security/
Further reading: (Optional!)
- RTE, Enhanced security planned for EU Presidency, gardaí say (24 June 2026), available at: https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0624/1580009-ireland-eu-presidency/
- Irish Times, Drone wars: Irish Defence Forces watching the skies as EU presidency set to begin (26 May 2026), available at: https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/05/26/drone-wars-irish-defence-forces-watching-the-skies-as-eu-presidency-set-to-begin/
- Irish Times, ‘Considerable’ concern Ireland lacks means to defend itself ahead of EU presidency role (11 December 2025), available at: https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/12/11/considerable-concern-ireland-lacks-means-to-defend-itself-ahead-of-eu-presidency-role
Care & Community
Thursday 24 September 2026 / 6.30pm-7.30pm //
Flux Studios, Chatham St, Dublin 2
How can we counter the isolation and alienation of social media?
Core reading:
- Donatella Della Ratta, “Digital Socialism Beyond the Digital Social: Confronting Communicative Capitalism with Ethics of Care” (2020). Available at: https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1145
- Anna Gotlib, ‘Main Character Syndrome’ (2024). Available at: https://aeon.co/essays/why-main-character-syndrome-is-philosophically-dangerous
- Jonathon Dean, “From solidarity to self-promotion? Neoliberalism and left politics in the age of the social media influencer” (2023). Available at:https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/200079/10/dean-2023-from-solidarity-to-self-promotion-neoliberalism-and-left-politics-in-the-age-of-the-social-media-influencer.pdf
Further reading/listening: (Optional!)
- Rezgar Akrawi, “The Left and Breaching Capitalism’s Digital Fortress” (2026). Available at: https://countercurrents.org/2026/06/the-left-and-breaching-capitalisms-digital-fortress/
- Joshua Citarella, “Marxist memes for TikTok teens: can the internet radicalize teenagers for the left?” (2020). Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/12/marxist-memes-tiktok-teens-radical-left