This September in Berlin, Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity (Pluto Press, 2025) will be launched as part of the gathering On Mutiny and Federation. The book emerges from the Pirate Care syllabus, a process in radical pedagogy that set out to map practices of disobedient care in times when care itself is criminalised.
How do we organise care when welfare is dismantled, solidarity surveilled, and mutual aid punished? Pirate Care traces forms of resistance that persist nonetheless: kitchens that reappear after eviction, clinics run in squats, networks of cross-border solidarity, archives of outlawed knowledge.
To launch the book, five contributors to the Pirate Care syllabus and its unfoldings will gather for a conversation about care as refusal, solidarity as survival, and the infrastructures we must build against repression: Valeria Graziano – cultural theorist and organizer; Marcell Mars – “advanced internet user,” co-founder of Memory of the World shadow library and Zagreb’s Multimedia Institute/MAMA; Tomislav Medak – commons and disability activist, environmental researcher, co-founder of MAMA; Morana Milijanovic – sailboat captain and educator, active in maritime search and rescue since 2019, mostly with Sea-Watch and Louise Michel; Cassie Thornton – artist and activist whose recent practices include The Hologram, Casino for Social Medicine, and Feminist Economics Department.
This book launch opens On Mutiny and Federation (18–21 September), four days of collective inquiry across AGIT (https://aaagit.org/) and the Casino for Social Medicine (https://www.casinoooo.org/). Together, we will ask how to resist the criminalisation of solidarity, how to practice healthcare as resistance, how to desert toxic dependencies, and how to federate our struggles across borders and lifeworlds.