Paperback, 160 pages
English language
Published 2026 by Verso.
As crises mount and multiply, governments fail to respond or exacerbate the problems. What are we to do?
Mutual Aid is a radical handbook for anyone who grasps the severity of the global polycrisis and wants community-based means to fight back. Dean Spade -- lawyer, academic, writer and activist -- highlights the bold and innovative ways ordinary people have developed to share resources and care for those crisis. Mutual aid isn't charity. It is a form of organizing integral to all influential and successful social movements. Spade offers practical tools and advice to help with the challenges of working in groups, forming a decision-making process, and preventing and addressing conflict.
As crises mount and multiply, governments fail to respond or exacerbate the problems. What are we to do?
Mutual Aid is a radical handbook for anyone who grasps the severity of the global polycrisis and wants community-based means to fight back. Dean Spade -- lawyer, academic, writer and activist -- highlights the bold and innovative ways ordinary people have developed to share resources and care for those crisis. Mutual aid isn't charity. It is a form of organizing integral to all influential and successful social movements. Spade offers practical tools and advice to help with the challenges of working in groups, forming a decision-making process, and preventing and addressing conflict.
Mutual Aid by Dean Spade does not live up to my expectations.
Most could be said in a few paragraphs and it is too much focused on short-term mutual aid, and catastrophic environments and does not talk enough about maintaining mutual aid and guiding structures. The permanent MA in form of Co-Ops or economical MA is not touched enough.
