An Oral History of the New York Commune : 2052-2072

Author(s): O'Brien, M. E.,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 15/09/2022,
Pagination: Illustrations,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Common Notions,
Published By: Common Notions,
Book Classification: Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies,
Dimensions: 127 x 202 x 16
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781942173588

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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.