Peter Gelderloos parte de uma afirmação contundente: enquanto governos e corporações prolongam a crise ambiental, são os povos, territórios e movimentos de base que já experimentam soluções reais. Em As soluções já estão aqui, o autor percorre experiências de manejo comunitário, autodefesa territorial, agroecologia, reflorestamento popular e resistência à infraestrutura destrutiva. Aqui, a revolução ecológica não é uma metáfora, ela é prática cotidiana de comunidades indígenas, coletivos urbanos, camponeses e redes autônomas que reinventam suas relações com a terra, a água e o clima. Com análise histórica, relatos de campo e crítica radical ao capitalismo verde, o livro mostra como essas iniciativas enfrentam o Estado, defendem a vida e oferecem alternativas sistêmicas que já estão em curso. A obra convoca o leitor a enxergar poder, criatividade e futuro nos movimentos que, apesar de marginalizados, lideram as respostas mais eficazes à crise planetária.

Em diálogo com povos do Brasil, da Venezuela, da Indonésia, da Europa e de tantas fronteiras em disputa, o autor mostra que a verdadeira resposta à catástrofe climática já está em curso — enraizada na autonomia, na solidariedade e na prática cotidiana de quem resiste. Publicado originalmente pela Pluto Press (2022) e agora no Brasil, com prefácio de Anne Xukuru, o livro desmascara a farsa dos governos, corporações e ONGs que vendem falsas saídas “verdes” enquanto aprofundam a devastação.

In the face of ecological crisis, police repression and white supremacy, there is an apparent lack of options for effective resistance. Here, Peter Gelderloos brings to life some of the conflictive and subversive events of the last couple of decades in a radical new criticism of nonviolence.

The book weaves history, vignettes, interviews and personal reflections to show how our movements suffer from an inability to pass on lessons learned from one generation to the next.

Learning from the antiracist rebellions triggered by police murders from Minneapolis to Bristol, and the climate campaigns that often fail to centre an anticolonial consciousness, we can understand nonviolence as a symptom of social amnesia, an inability to remember our places in this world and what we have learned from past episodes of resistance.

Cautioning against future waves of pacification and forgetting, this book urges us to collectivise memory and develop the methods we need to fight for our survival.

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope.

Across the world, grassroots networks of local communities are working to realize their visions of an alternative revolutionary response to planetary destruction, often pitted against the new megaprojects promoted by greenwashed alternative energy infrastructures and the neocolonialist, technocratic policies that are the forerunners of the Green New Deal.

Gelderloos interviews food sovereignty activists in Venezuela, Indigenous communities reforesting their lands in Brazil and anarchists fighting biofuel plantations in Indonesia, looking at the battles that have cancelled airports, stopped pipelines, and helped the most marginalized to fight borders and environmental racism, to transform their cities, to win a dignified survival.

Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities-even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits, and anti-imperialists usually stop short of supporting self-defense and armed resistance. How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. In a call bound to stir controversy and lively debate, Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.

Contemporary movements for social change face plenty of difficult questions, but sometimes matters of strategy and tactics receive low priority. Many North American activists fail to scrutinize the role of nonviolence, never posing essential questions:

• Is nonviolence effective at ending systems of oppression?
• Does nonviolence intersect with white privilege and the dominance of North over South?
• How does pacifism reinforce the same power dynamic as patriarchy?
• Ultimately, does nonviolence protect the state?

Peter Gelderloos is a radical community organizer. He is the author of Consensus: A New Handbook for Grassroots Political, Social, and Environmental Groups and a contributor to Letters From Young Activists. He is the co-facilitator of a workshop on the prison system, and is also involved in independent media, copwatching, anti-oppression work, and anarchist organizing.

Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities—even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits, and anti-imperialists usually stop short of supporting self-defense and armed resistance. How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. In a call bound to stir controversy and lively debate, Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.

Contemporary movements for social change face plenty of difficult questions, but sometimes matters of strategy and tactics receive low priority. Many North American activists fail to scrutinize the role of nonviolence, never posing essential

• Is nonviolence effective at ending systems of oppression?
• Does nonviolence intersect with white privilege and the dominance of North over South?
• How does pacifism reinforce the same power dynamic as patriarchy?
• Ultimately, does nonviolence protect the state?

Peter Gelderloos is a radical community organizer. He is the author of A New Handbook for Grassroots Political, Social, and Environmental Groups and a contributor to Letters From Young Activists. He is the co-facilitator of a workshop on the prison system, and is also involved in independent media, copwatching, anti-oppression work, and anarchist organizing.

“Como seria uma sociedade anarquista em comparação com sociedades capitalistas e estatistas? É claro que sociedades hierárquicas funcionam bem de acordo com certos critérios. Elas tendem a ser extremamente eficazes em conquistar sociedades vizinhas e assegurar enormes fortunas para seus governantes. Por outro lado, à medida que se intensificam as mudanças climáticas, a escassez de água e de alimentos, a instabilidade do mercado e outras crises globais, os modelos hierárquicos não estão se mostrando especialmente sustentáveis. As histórias deste livro mostram que uma sociedade anarquista pode obter muito mais sucesso em possibilitar que todas as pessoas dentro dela satisfaçam seus desejos e necessidades.”

— Peter Gelderloos

[Também disponível gratuitamente em: https://bibliotecaanarquista.org/library/peter-gelderloos-a-anarquia-funciona]

This book takes examples from around the world, picking through history and anthropology, showing that people have, in different ways and at different times, demonstrated mutual aid, self-organization, autonomy, horizontal decision making, and so forth the principles that anarchy is founded on regardless of whether they called themselves anarchists or not. Too well documented to be strictly mythology, and too expansive to be strictly anthropology, this is an inspiring answer to the people who say that anarchists are a point-by-point introduction to how anarchy can and has actually worked.

[Also available for free at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works]