Abstract
This chapter explores the new networks of mutual aid, solidarity and care that have emerged around the world in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, and through describing them, often using the voices of those organizing on the ground, argues that within these day-to-day relationships of care we see not so much social movements as traditionally understood, but rather societies in movement, within which are the seeds of a new society. This phenomenon is linked to the past twenty years of horizontal, autonomous, and affective (care and trust based) forms of organizing, which has been striving to prefigure a new society in the shell of the old. As with many prefigurative movements, as will be described so as to better locate this global rise in mutual aid, they generally do not come from people organizing with a plan to change society or even people who have been involved in political organizing, but arise from necessity, and in that need find that the most useful—and most empowering and enjoyable—way of organizing is horizontally, sharing power and creating space for equal participation and mutual care.
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