Based on a paper given at the Anarchist Studies Network panel at the 2021 PSA conference, Cristopher Morales argues that the spontaneous emergence of mutual aid organising in response to the COVID-19 crisis had proven to be a temporary exception to the statist/capitalist norm, and that as ‘normal’ daily life returns, these solidaristic social relationships have disappeared.
Mutual Aid in the COVID-19 Crisis – a Short-Lived Exception?
[Part of a series of articles reflecting on anarchist responses to the Covid-19 crisis and lockdown, one year on].