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This capitalist system has forced us to rely on our wage labor to survive. When an employer is taking advantage of workers, which is always inevitable, and the employees are unionized, they can strike for better conditions, wages, and benefits. Through necessary union organizing,
striking workers can shake the system that asks them to die for their labor, only giving the option of surviving miserably in return. When an individual has been left without resources for survival, whether they are disabled or the economic conditions have made it impossible
for them to work, they will likely be harassed by a landlord and forced into homelessness. If the tenants who are at the mercy of a landlord, whether the landlord has bought blocks of houses in a neighborhood, or is a huge property management company that owns various buildings,
form a tenants association, they can organize a rent strike to combat losing their homes and show solidarity to their neighbors. While people are striking, mutual aid can help them live, especially if wide scale networks have been created. Supporting others is also kind.
There is a diversity of tactics in organizing and mutual aid is one of them. If we would like to move toward the possibility of a general strike where workers, similar to the workers and farmers in India, strike to demand better conditions and wages, and those living in their
homes fight against homelessness and the criminalization of poverty, we will need to make sure people are fed and given the resources they will need for survival when they organize to challenge the elected officials and corporate elite who have abused them.
