Spade provides a useful introduction to mutual aid work, but a more detailed book based on the experiences of mutual aiders would have been even more valuable. Mutual aid is a start but ultimately more enduring revolutionary organisations are going to be necessary to secure a decent future for all.

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Dean Spade
Verso, 2020
9781839762123

The resounding clarion call that runs through the book is that, without an end to global slums, healthcare for profit, and the dismantling factory farming, there will be no respite from global pandemics. Until capitalism is buried, we will live in a world in which pandemics continue to rage on.

The Monster Enters: Covid-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism
Mike Davis
OR Books, 2020
9781682193037