Community activist groups can be a significant force in local politics, as experiences in both Haringey and Tower Hamlets show.
Solidarity at the doorstep
![](https://i0.wp.com/freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/faces-must-be-blurred.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1)
Community activist groups can be a significant force in local politics, as experiences in both Haringey and Tower Hamlets show.
At the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, I was heartened to see a network of mutual aid groups springing up, mostly autonomously, around the country. There did seem to have been some central impetus behind this. Still, my experience with the few that I started to organise with (I spread my time around a few