Peter Kropotkin exposed how capitalists used "survival of the fittest" to justify exploitation. 120 years later, we're fighting the same battle.

This episode explores mutual aid not as charity or activism, but as our biological reality - and why understanding this changes everything about how we organize.

In this episode:

• The 1800s debate between Kropotkin and Social Darwinists that shaped how we see human nature
• How industrial capitalists used "natural selection" to justify child labor and poverty wages
• Why Project 2025 targets mutual aid networks and criminalizes public care
• Reading from Chapter 6 of A Radical Guide's "Resist Project 2025" booklet
• Understanding cooperation as an evolutionary strategy, not a political position
• How communities create alternatives that make authoritarian systems irrelevant

The same ideology that justified factory exploitation now justifies letting people die without healthcare. But communities practicing mutual aid aren't doing charity - they're expressing the same cooperative force that builds forests and keeps thirty-seven trillion cells in your body working together.

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Share your thoughts: How does understanding mutual aid as a biological nature change your organizing?

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#MutualAid #Kropotkin #Project2025 #RadicalOrganizing #Anarchism #CommunityOrganizing #SocialDarwinism #CollectiveCare #ARadicalGuide

The closing session, The P.I.T, wraps up the day’s international workshops with thanks and collective gratitude.

Throughout the event, we heard from organizers, writers, artists, and movement builders across the world — sharing lessons on anarchism, collective care, food sovereignty, degrowth, zero fare transportation, anti-authoritarian publishing, radical art, and mutual aid. From poetry to panels, each session added to a shared practice of connecting struggles, imagining alternatives, and building collective power.

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair has gathered thousands of anarchists, supporters, and curious folks since 2007 on Lenape land, creating space to learn about anarchist traditions, philosophy, praxis, and anti-capitalist struggle.

This series was presented in collaboration with Floresta TV and A Radical Guide:

• Floresta TV emerged from a call by Indigenous Peoples to record, share, and expand sustainable, collective, and peaceful culture in today’s digital world.

• A Radical Guide connects, amplifies, and unites liberation movements — preserving histories, amplifying present struggles, and fostering collective action.

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https://anarchistbookfair.net/2025-bookfair/

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#Anarchism #MutualAid #NYCAnarchistBookFair #CollectiveCare #Liberation

This session features Felipe Corrêa and Victor Khaled, coordinators of the Institute for Anarchist Theory and History (IATH) (itha-iath.org) and militants of the Libertarian Socialist Organization (OSL) in Brazil.

The talk begins with an exploration of the concept of anarchism, based on Corrêa’s book Black Flag, recently translated and published internationally. From there, the panel traces the resurgence of anarchist militancy in Brazil after the end of the military dictatorship in 1985.

Drawing from Khaled’s theoretical and practical work, they examine the struggles for public transportation in Brazil, especially during the June Protests of 2013, when the Zero Fare agenda became nationalized. Since then, Brazil has become the country with the highest number of Zero Fare cities in the world.

The session closes with a reflection on the role of anarchists in these movements — how anarchist militancy can strengthen struggles for Zero Fare, the Right to the City, and the building of mass, self-managed popular power.

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair has gathered thousands of anarchists, supporters, and curious folks since 2007 on Lenape land, creating space to learn about anarchist traditions, philosophy, praxis, and anti-capitalist struggle.

This series is brought to you in collaboration with Floresta TV and A Radical Guide:

Floresta TV emerged from a call by Indigenous Peoples to record, share, and expand sustainable, collective, and peaceful culture in today’s digital world.

A Radical Guide connects, amplifies, and unites liberation movements — preserving histories, amplifying present struggles, and fostering collective action.

Learn more and explore:

https://www.radical-guide.com

https://anarchistbookfair.net/2025-bookfair/

https://www.floresta.tv/en

#Anarchism #ZeroFare #Brazil #NYCAnarchistBookFair #RightToTheCity

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This session brings together mutual aid organizers for a virtual panel and teach-in on how to organize a weekly mutual aid space in your neighborhood. Panelists share practical experiences, lessons, and tools for building local networks of care and resistance.

The session also includes the announcement of a new movement initiative to support the creation of community-led mutual aid distributions in every neighborhood across NYC.

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair has gathered thousands of anarchists, supporters, and curious folks since 2007 on Lenape land, creating space to learn about anarchist traditions, philosophy, praxis, and anti-capitalist struggle.

This series is brought to you in collaboration with Floresta TV and A Radical Guide:

Floresta TV emerged from a call by Indigenous Peoples to record, share, and expand sustainable, collective, and peaceful culture in today’s digital world.

A Radical Guide connects, amplifies, and unites liberation movements — preserving histories, amplifying present struggles, and fostering collective action.

Learn more and explore:

https://www.radical-guide.com

https://anarchistbookfair.net/2025-bookfair/

https://www.floresta.tv/en

#MutualAid #Anarchism #CommunityCare #NYCAnarchistBookFair #Liberation

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This session with Antonio Román-Alcalá and the Agroecology Research-Action Collective (ARC) looks at the intersections, overlaps, and tensions between anarchism, food sovereignty, and degrowth — with some focus on land reform.

The presentation is based on a recent article in the Degrowth Journal but framed to emphasize action, not just theory. After the short talk, participants join a discussion on how to navigate these tensions and build practices that make sense in the so-called U.S. today.

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair has gathered thousands of anarchists, supporters, and curious folks since 2007 on Lenape land, creating space to learn about anarchist traditions, philosophy, praxis, and anti-capitalist struggle.

This series is brought to you in collaboration with Floresta TV and A Radical Guide:

Floresta TV emerged from a call by Indigenous Peoples to record, share, and expand sustainable, collective, and peaceful culture in today’s digital world.

A Radical Guide connects, amplifies, and unites liberation movements — preserving histories, amplifying present struggles, and fostering collective action.

Learn more and explore:

https://www.radical-guide.com

https://anarchistbookfair.net/2025-bookfair/

https://www.floresta.tv/en

#Anarchism #FoodSovereignty #Degrowth #Agroecology #NYCAnarchistBookFair

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This session features Acción y Liberación (vaccylibv.blogspot.com), a zine/mini-book created through affinity between anarchists, anti-speciesists, and nihilists in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and the U.S. The publication offers perspectives of total and animal liberation, rooted in international collaboration.

Launched internationally with Warzone Distro (warzonedistro.noblogs.org), the magazine includes articles from imprisoned comrades in Chile, Mónica Caballero and Susaron4. Members of Acción y Liberación introduce their project and discuss its vision of struggle and liberation across borders.

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair has gathered thousands of anarchists, supporters, and curious folks since 2007 on Lenape land, creating space to learn about anarchist traditions, philosophy, praxis, and anti-capitalist struggle.

This series is brought to you in collaboration with Floresta TV and A Radical Guide:

Floresta TV emerged from a call by Indigenous Peoples to record, share, and expand sustainable, collective, and peaceful culture in today’s digital world.

A Radical Guide connects, amplifies, and unites liberation movements — preserving histories, amplifying present struggles, and fostering collective action.

Learn more and explore:

https://www.radical-guide.com

https://anarchistbookfair.net/2025-bookfair/

https://www.floresta.tv/en

#Anarchism #AccionYLiberacion #AnimalLiberation #AntiSpeciesism #NYCAnarchistBookFair

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This video features readings by Tongo Eisen-Martin, an American poet, organizer, and former Poet Laureate of San Francisco. His work bridges revolutionary critique, memory, and community — tackling issues like incarceration, Black liberation, state violence, and love in movements. Eisen-Martin holds both BA and MA in African American Studies from Columbia University. His poetry collections include Blood on the Fog (2021), Heaven Is All Goodbyes (2017), Someone’s Dead Already (2015), among others.

Through his reading, this session shows how poetry can carry rage, grief, and vision — living histories refusing to be erased.

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair has gathered thousands of anarchists, supporters, and curious folks since 2007 on Lenape land, creating space to learn about anarchist traditions, philosophy, praxis, and anti-capitalist struggle.

This series is brought to you in collaboration with Floresta TV and A Radical Guide:

Floresta TV emerged from a call by Indigenous Peoples to record, share, and expand sustainable, collective, and peaceful culture in today’s digital world.

A Radical Guide connects, amplifies, and unites liberation movements — preserving histories, amplifying present struggles, and fostering collective action.

Learn more and explore:

https://www.radical-guide.com

https://anarchistbookfair.net/2025-bookfair/

https://www.floresta.tv/en

#Poetry #TongoEisenMartin #SanFranciscoPoetLaureate #Anarchism #NYCAnarchistBookFair #BlackLiberation

This workshop with Tyasha/Ty (teamwithty.com/Tyasha/Ty) explores lessons from more than 50 years of grassroots organizing by Black Feminists, Abolitionists, and Anarchists across Turtle Island and beyond. Drawing from the Break the System Archive (breakthesystem.xyz), participants are guided through histories of Black-led movements and connected to today’s organizing with the Free4ALL mutual aid network in Connecticut.

The session highlights what has worked, what hasn’t, and emerging ways of practicing sustainable, anti-carceral care for collective liberation. After a 30–35 minute workshop, the discussion opens for Q+A.

About the speakers and projects:

Tyasha/Ty is a liberation artist, radical archivist, researcher, and caretaker of Break the System Archive. Their work spans collective care networks, self-publishing, community-based research, healing arts, and protest guerrilla installations.

Break the System Archive is an independent archive, zine press, and distro showcasing zines, protest ephemera, and DIY media from the 1970s to today.Free4ALL is an anti-carceral, grassroots mutual aid and peer support network active across Connecticut and beyond, hosting free stores, zine distros, community pop-ups, and peer support groups. Since launching in 2023, they’ve connected with more than 1,500 people.

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair has gathered thousands of anarchists, supporters, and curious folks since 2007 on Lenape land, creating space to learn about anarchist traditions, philosophy, praxis, and anti-capitalist struggle.

This series is brought to you in collaboration with Floresta TV and A Radical Guide:

Floresta TV emerged from a call by Indigenous Peoples to record, share, and expand sustainable, collective, and peaceful culture in today’s digital world.

A Radical Guide connects, amplifies, and unites liberation movements — preserving histories, amplifying present struggles, and fostering collective action.

Learn more and explore:

https://www.radical-guide.com

https://anarchistbookfair.net/2025-bookfair/

https://www.floresta.tv/en

#Anarchism #MutualAid #RadicalSankofa #CollectiveCare #NYCAnarchistBookFair

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