Week #3 – Mon 7 July 2025

Hello comrades,

Hope you are all keeping well! We were so delighted last week to host our first film discussion in Ballybough! The next meeting will run in the same time, same place on Wednesday week, and the film and its reading are included below.

This week we will be running three meetings: INTERNATIONAL NON-ALIGNMENT (Militarism & Neutrality), THE COMMONS AND THE LOUGH NEAGH CRISIS (Property, Land & Ecology), and CARE (Care & Community)! Reading and meeting info are included below. Also, keep in mind that this week our Care & Community will be running on Saturday morning, instead of midweek!

P.S. If you couldn’t get through all of the reading for a group, that’s abslutely fine. If you’ve read one article/chapter, that’ll do! We’d rather see you there than not!

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THIS WEEK! 

Militarism and Neutrality

Tuesday 8 July 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex Street East, Dublin 2

International Non-Alignment

Core Reading

• Comhiarracht Gaelach, ‘Non-alignment and neutrality: A response to Ireland’s Consultative Forum on International Security Policy’ (10 January 2024), available at: https://diem25.org/non-alignment-and-neutrality-a-response-to-irelands-consultative-forum-on-international-security-policy/
• Pat Walsh, ‘Non-Alignment Now!’ (2 December 2022), available at: https://drpatwalsh.com/2022/12/02/non-alignment-now
• Paul Stubbs, ‘The Non-Aligned Movement Then and Now’ (8 November 2023), available at: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-non-aligned-movement-then-and-now/

Further Reading (optional)

• Dáil Éireann debate 14 June 1978 – Questions on Non-Aligned Nations, available at:https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-06-14/21/
• DiEm25, ‘Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn and Ece Temelkuran present the Athens Declaration’ (13 May 2022), available at: https://diem25.org/yanis-varoufakis-jeremy-corbyn-and-ece-temelkuran-present-the-athens-declaration/
• Harsh V. Pant, ‘End of the Road for the Non-Aligned Movement?’ (29 September 2016), available at: https://archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/end-road-non-aligned-movement
• Hennie Strydom, ‘The Non-Aligned Movement and the Reform of International Relations’ (2007), available at: https://www.mpil.de/files/pdf1/mpunyb_01_strydom_11.pd

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Property, Land and Ecology

Wednesday 9 July 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Flux Studios, 4 Chatham Row, Dublin 2

The Commons (and Lough Neagh)

• Louise Taylor & John Barry, “The Commons / Lough Neagh
  Northern Ireland as a Sacrifice Zone: The Lough Neagh Crisis”. Available at: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/613768576/Northern-Ireland-as-a-Sacrifice-Zone-The-Lough-Neagh-Crisis.pdf
• Silvia Federici, “Feminism and the Politics of the Commons”. Available at: https://wealthofthecommons.org/essay/feminism-and-politics-commons
• Daniel Long, “The case for a land observatory in Ireland”. Available at: https://www.arc2020.eu/the-case-for-a-land-observatory-in-ireland/

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Care and Community

Saturday 12 July 2025 / 10am-11am //
Marrowbone Books, 78 The Coombe, Dublin 8

Care

• Ch. 3 – “Caring Communities” in The Care Collective, The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence.
• Ch. 2 – “The Political Economy of Love” in Alva Gotby, They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotion.
• Ch. 1 – “Redefining Democracy as Settling Disputes about Care Responsibilities” in Joan Tronto, Caring Democracy.

Chapters available as a PDF.

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NEXT WEEK!

Film Club #2

Wednesday 16 July 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Ballybough Community Centre, 49 Ballybough Rd, Dublin 3

[FYI this is not a screening! Just a chat!]

Phoenix (dir. Christian Petzold, 2014)

Phoenix is set in Germany in the aftermath of World War II, where Nelly, a Jewish woman who managed to survive Auschwitz concentration camp, decides to go back to her husband Johnny in Berlin. She has had to have her face reconstructed owing to a bullet wound, and her husband does not recognize her.

Suggested reading: “Petzold’s Phoenix, Fassbinder’s Maria Braun, and the Melodramatic Archaeology of the Rubble Past” – Jaimey Fisher. Available at: https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2017/christian-petzold-a-dossier/petzold-fassbinder/

Further viewing (optional): Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958); The Marriage of Maria Braun (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979).

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Hopefully see you during the week!

Love and solidarity,
SAINTS AND SCHOLARS ☘️ 🩷