Mutual aid (organization theory)
Mutual aid is an organizational model where voluntary, collaborative exchanges of resources and services for common benefit take place amongst community members to overcome social, economic, and political barriers to meeting common needs. This can include physical resources like food, clothing, or medicine, as well as services like breakfast programs or education. These groups are often built for the daily needs of their communities, but mutual aid groups are also found throughout relief efforts, such as in natural disasters or pandemics like COVID-19.
A mutual-aid soup kitchen Conder Street Mission Hall, 1881
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.
Kropotkin c. 1900
Kropotkin in 1876
Emma Goldman delivering a eulogy at Kropotkin's funeral
The Kropotkinskaya metro station