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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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Chile: Militant mutual aid

From the Inhabit Territories collective, stories of mutual aid and rebellion (yes, they are not opposed) in chile … The People Don’t Need Permission to Feed Each Other Santiago de Chile’s community kitchens amid the pandemic and uprising (27/09/2020) Benito … Continue reading

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(For) David Graeber on mutual aid

From the PM Press Blog … In loving memory of our friend, comrade, and mentor…David Graeber Andrej Grubacic shares some thoughts on David’s sudden passing. David Graeber was my mentor and my closest friend for the last twenty years. We … Continue reading

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Mutual aid in poland

We share a second account in a series on mutual aid in the times of the Covid-19 pandemic from the CrimethInc. Collective, this time from poland. There is much to learn from and respect in such mutual aid initiatives. A … Continue reading

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Mutual aid in New York City

Further news and reflection on mutual aid, from the CrimethInc. Collective (26/06/2020), the first in a promised series covering mutual aid initiatives across the globe … Finding the Thread that Binds Us: Three Mutual Aid Networks in New York City … Continue reading

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The resilience and fragility of mutual aid: Argentina

From the Correspondent, an article by Zoe Smith comparing mutual aid initiatives in Argentina and the experience in the United States. A further contribution to thinking through mutual aid and anarchist politics …

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Anarchism and the pandemic: Reflections on mutual aid

Every time a neighbor delivers loaves of homemade bread to each house in their block, each time someone provides a ride to a medical appointment, a toy to a child, or a grocery run, we learn who we can count … Continue reading

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Mutual Aid in Cape Town

Mutual aid is a response to crisis born within the cracks of regimes of State-Capital. It is also that which allows the creation of ties and bonds, of social relations, outside commodity and spectacle mediation. It is that which can … Continue reading

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From riot to revolution: Protest as self-defense and mutual aid

Reflecting on the protests following the murder of George Floyd and as an historical example of mutual aid in African-American political history, a moment from the history of the Black Panther Party.

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Mutual aid in pandemic times

The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that it has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of … Continue reading

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