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The Other Shore: Mutual Aid and Autonomous Infrastructure after Hurricane Ian

I had no time to hate, becauseThe Grave would hinder meAnd life was not so ample ICould finish enmity. Nor had I time to love; but sinceSome Industry must beThe little toil of love, I thoughtWas large enough for me. … Continue reading

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Mutual aid in england

One of the simplest and profoundest teachings of anarchism is that it is only with the help of many, many others that one finds oneself. Jesse S. Cohn, Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation The debate around the “radical” nature … Continue reading

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Mutual aid against Putin (III)

We continue to share below film-maker and journalist Alexis Daloumis’ ongoing news reports and interviews in ukraine, this time on mutual aid work in the city of Kharkiv. (from Freedom News 01/06/2022). The fist two reports we shared focused on anarchist solidarity … Continue reading

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Lessons of the Covid mutual aid projects

Whatever may be the shortcomings of my study, it will make [any revolutionary who reads it] reflect on the necessity of bringing to the next revolution a set of constructive ideas (as well as destructive ones), of thinking them through carefully and … Continue reading

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The politics of mutual aid

Kairos: A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment. A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment. We share an … Continue reading

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Mutual Aid in Puerto Rico

Mutual aid works within the fissures and cracks of state and corporate management; it develops within spaces partially outside the reach of their power. It has the capacity to weave relations of support and autonomy, thereby generating new subjectivities and … Continue reading

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In defence of mutual aid

From The Commoner (21/01/2021), a reflection on mutual aid … Mutual Aid Does Nothing Alone: A Rebuttal to Joanna Wuest In her article ‘Mutual Aid Can’t Do It Alone,’ The Nation author Dr. Joanna Wuest alleges that mutual aid is insufficient to support … Continue reading

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Mutual Aid: “To decentralise itself into non-existence”

In solidarity, we share a mutual aid story, a video testimonial of the Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Richmond, Virginia. We and You and So Many Others: A Story of MAD RVA and Mutual Aid in Richmond, VA … WHO ARE … Continue reading

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Mutual aid will help us survive the Biden presidency

From Roarmag magazine (20/11/2020), a reflection on practices of mutual aid by Dean Spade …

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Brazil: Militant mutual aid – the “Kasa Invisível” of Belo Horizonte

It may be deemed an exaggeration to say that mutual aid, as theorised and practised by anarchists, is both the distillation of perennial human practices of care underlying/surviving/resisting forms of centralised appropriation and domination, and the most important basis for … Continue reading

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