Reading Together is a group committed to a thorough and long term educational process. We are not associated with any political organisation nor do we aim at accomplishing any project goals or requirements. Previous knowledge of Marxism or political affiliation is not a prerequisite for joining us.
In our reading group, we apply the “close reading” approach. This means that we read paragraph by paragraph, taking turns in reading, and we return to the sections that need further explanation. We are an international group and our online sessions are held in English. It is important to mention that this form of education requires patience, engagement and dedication.
Besides working with the text, we also discuss a wide range of topics concerning daily politics and we politicise personal issues in order to tackle together the problems imposed by today’s capitalism. With this in mind, we build the group on the grounds of committed and critical camaraderie.
The sessions are recorded so that participants can refer back to them or listen if they cannot attend a particular session.
Reading Together: Articles on Britain
May 9, 2025 - ongoing
The group Reading Together invites all interested to join the online collective reading of Karl Marx’s Articles on Britain. The group meets weekly on Thursdays and Fridays mornings between 8 – 11 am. CET (Central European Time), and is led by 1+1 from Iasi, Romania and Social Center ZaČin from Belgrade, Serbia.
In “Articles on Britain” (written between 1850-1857 and republished initially in the 1973 edition by David Fernbach) Marx concentrates on the historical and material foundations of the British political system and on its key differences from the political systems of France and Germany. The different material conditions produced in Britain a specific relationship between state and civil society, and Marx believed this created a more favorable situation for a proletarian revolution.
Reading Together: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
December 5, 2024 - April 19, 2025
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living”. (Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte)
The group Reading Together invites all interested to join the online collective reading of Karl Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1848). The group meets weekly on Thursdays and Fridays mornings between 8 – 11 am. CET (Central European Time), and is led by 1+1 from Iasi, Romania and Social Center ZaČin from Belgrade, Serbia.
In this text, Marx follows the political and economical interactions between the various classes or fractions of classes, the divisions and alliances among the bourgeoisie, the petty bourgeoisie, the peasantry and the workers in the period that followed the 1848 revolution in France.
Reading Together: Karl Marx, The Political Writings
June 7, 2024 - November 21, 2024
The group Reading Together invites all interested to join online sessions on Karl Marx’s Political Writings (1848)*. The group meets weekly on Fridays 8-11 am. and Saturdays 9-12 am. CEST (Central European Summer Time), and is led by 1+1 from Iasi, Romania and Social Center ZaČin from Belgrade, Serbia.
In June 2024, we continue reading the selection of essential political and historical writings by Marx and Engels, and keep discussing current political developments in the context of historical materialism.
*Reviews from the Neue rheinische Zeitung Revue, Address of the Central Commmitee to the Communist League (March 1850) (Marx & Engels), Address of the Central Commmitee to the Communist League (June 1850) (Marx & Engels), Minutes of the Central Commmitee Meeting of 15 September 1850, Introduction to Volume 2 by David Fernbach, The Class Struggles in France: 1848-50.
Reading Together: Karl Marx, The Political Writings
November 18, 2023 - June 1, 2024
The group Reading Together invites all interested to join online sessions on Karl Marx’s Political Writings*, starting with Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848).
The group meets weekly on Fridays 15-18 and Saturdays 9-12 CEST, and is led by 1+1 from Iasi, Romania and Social Center ZaČin from Belgrade, Serbia.
Reading Together is an international group and our online sessions are held in English. The sessions are recorded so that participants can refer back to them or listen if they cannot attend a particular session.
Contact us at contact@unuplusunu.org
*Introduction to Volume 1 by David Ferbach, Manifesto of the Communist Party (Marx & Engels), Speeches on Poland (28th November 1847), Speeches on Poland (22 February 1848), The Demands of the Communist Party in Germany (Marx & Engels), Articles from Neue Reinische Zeitung
The group meets weekly and is led by 1+1 from Iasi, Romania and Social Center ZaČin from Belgrade, Serbia.
Participation is free. For inquiries related to the reading group please email us to contact@unuplusunu.org.
Previous reading groups:
–Reading Together: The Russian Revolution, 2023
– Reading Together: State and Revolution, 2023
– Reading Together: Leninism or Marxism, 2023
– Reading Group: Ways of Organisation, 2023
– Reading Together about Reform and Revolution, 2023
– Reading Together about Legality and Illegality, 2023
– Reading Together about Historical Materialism, 2023
– About Reading as Production of Debate, 2021
– Realism and Reality in Workers’ Environment, 2021
