Networks of Care:
Mutual aid as a life project
From Planet 251
by Llinos Anwyl
Llinos Anwyl draws on her experience with Unite Community Cambria tenants’ union to argue that learning from examples of autonomist community projects around the world can make a difference to our current housing crisis, and to future climate crises.
Social movement activists and organisations of the left face two urgent, though not new, challenges. The first is what strategy to adopt in order to address the worsening material conditions that so many of us face and which are increasing precarity and shortening lives; the second is how to mobilise people to take part in whatever form of resistance seems most likely to succeed. In the current political moment – defined by ecological crisis, rampant inflation, increased border enforcement, attacks on public benefits, the onslaught on trade unions and growing right-wing populism – we must act. But how?
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Llinos Anwyl (they/them) is an activist and creative from Llanallgo, Ynys Môn. They work in several mediums but mainly focus on spoken word poetry and apothegmatic collages. You can find their work on Instagram @henbapurnewydd.
