a review of Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis Edited by Marina Sitrin and the Colectiva Sembrar. Pluto Press, London, 2020
FE Author: Bruce Trigg
Liberating Public Health from the State
by Bruce Trigg
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
Most public health concerns are ultimately local. Mutual aid projects and autonomous zones from New York City to Seattle, and from Chiapas and Rojava have shown how democratically controlled, non-hierarchical communities provide not only food and shelter but also health …
Anarchists and Vaccines
by Bruce Trigg
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
A four year old from Colorado recently died from influenza. According to news accounts, the child’s mother frequented Facebook sites run by groups promoting conspiracy theories about the dangers of vaccines and conventional medical treatments; so-called anti-vaxxers.