The following essay examines the explosion of mass struggles in India under the far-Right Modi government while comparing them to the George Floyd uprising in the United States, highlighting the role ...

Since the start of the pandemic, communities throughout the UK have rallied to help vulnerable and isolated people. Churches, charities, football clubs, mosques, local councilors and groups of ...

If someone had told me in February that I would be doing community organizing again after eight years off, I wouldn’t have believed them. In my youth, I was a loud and active organizer on numerous ...

Anarchists frighten privileged elites and their authoritarian followers not simply because the primary goals of the movement have been to abolish the sources of elite power – the state, patriarchy, ...

Volunteers in Washington help prepare food packages for people made suddenly unemployed by the pandemic. EPA/Erik S Lesser Empty supermarket shelves and panicked government briefings have become the ...

Out of a vacant coffeeshop, the collective K’é Infoshop is dedicated to mutual aid on America’s largest reservation. About an hour west of the New Mexico–Arizona border, an expanse of highway, sky, ...

This extended essay, published in pamphlet form by AK Press, is based on research Ian McKay did for his introduction to the new Freedom Press edition of Kropotkin's Mutual Aid. It deals not only with ...

“Solidarity, not charity.” At its most basic level, that’s how proponents describe mutual aid. Though historically associated with leftist causes, mutual aid is, at its core, about people helping one ...

Detail of Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution (2021), illustrated by N.O. Bonzo (all images courtesy the artist) Anarchist illustrator N.O. Bonzo produces decentralized ...