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"Solidarity" published on by Oxford University Press.

The financial crisis and austerity politics in Europe has had a devastating impact on public services, social security and vulnerable populations. Greek civil society responded quickly by establishing solidarity structures aimed at helping vulnerable citizens to meet their basic needs and empower them to co-create an anti-austerity movement. While digital technology and social media played an important role in the initiation of the movement, it has a negligible role in the movement s on-going practices. Through embedded work with several solidarity structures in Greece, we have begun to understand the solidarity economy (SE) as an experiment in direct democracy and self-organization. Working with a range of solidarity structures we are developing a vision for a Solidarity HCI committed to designing to support personal, social and institutional transformation through processes of agonistic pluralism and contestation, where the aims and objectives of the SE are continuously re-formulated and put into practice. ; 3126 ; 3137

Abstract
People's Solidarity (Volkssolidarität) is an East German organization founded in Dresden, Saxony, in 1945. It is primarily known for its activities dedicated to the care of older people. However, in the early 1950s, members of People's Solidarity were also involved in international solidarity campaigns for Greece, North Korea, and Vietnam. This article examines this little-known chapter of the organization's past. It reveals an unusual willingness among older East Germans both to donate money for the benefit of people in distant countries, and to relate to their suffering regardless of the (post-war) hardships faced at home. As the example of People's Solidarity shows, internationalism to some extent informed the roots of everyday, voluntary care practices under socialist rule in East Germany.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Evolution of the Concept -- 3 Theories of Solidarity -- 4 Radical Humanism -- 5 Social Division and Reconciliation -- 6 Culture -- 7 The Politics of Global Solidarity -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Index