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By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.

Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people's efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.

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Eman Abdelhadi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She is a mixed-methods sociologist studying gender, migration, and religion, with a substantive interest in Muslim Americans. Her qualitative work examines the interplay between community and identity among migrants, and her quantitative work uses survey data analysis to ascertain how religion intersects with economic, political and cultural outcomes. Her research project, a book manuscript entitled Impossible Futures: Why Women Leave Muslim American Communities, charts trajectories of embeddedness in Muslim communities in the United States. She finds that Muslim institutions place anxieties about cultural assimilation onto women’s shoulders, creating unintended pressures that drive them out. The book asks what happens when individuals face future expectations that are impossible to actualize.

M. E. O'Brien writes on gender and communist theory. She co-edits two magazines, Pinko, on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. Her work on family abolition has been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, French, Spanish, and Turkish. She received her PhD from NYU.