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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
Louisiana and the era of disasters
In this era of disaster, one of the most difficult tasks will be to move beyond continuously reacting to one crisis after another in order to plan more ambitiously for an uncertain future. This already feels overwhelming, and it is … Continue reading
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
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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Tagged colonialism and anti-colonialism, mutual aid, puerto rico, united states
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Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria (FAGC): Anarchism in struggle
Idealism is necessary, but not based on fantasies and chimeras, but on the real capacity to apply our ideas to transform the environment. We must find the limits of our myths – ideological, theoretical or any other kind – to … Continue reading
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
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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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, mutual aid, united states
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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 …
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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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, brazil, mutual aid, Occupations, Okupations
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Shane Burley: Building Communities for a Fascist-Free Future
(From Roarmag magazine online and the 2021, 11th paper issue of Roar Magazine) The challenge for antifascists today is to build the capacity to act as a buffer for marginalized communities and the movements fighting for a new world. On August 17, 2019, … Continue reading →