Vanessa E. Thompson
@vethompson.bsky.social
Abolition, Anticolonialism, Black Studies
Guter Dissens-Podcast zum Sammelband"Verweigert euch! Antimilitaristische Perspektiven auf die kriegerische Gegenwart" mit Chrissi & @raulzelik.bsky.social (u.a. mit Passagen aus Gaza, Bündnis Rheinmetall Entwaffnen, Pauline Jäckels, Ulrike Eifler, Raul & ich durften auch einen Text beisteuern).
Kerem Schamberger@keremschamberger.bsky.social · 2w agoHörenswerter Dissens-Podcast zum Sammelband "Verweigert Euch!", der dem vielfältigen Widerstand gegen Krieg und Militarisierung nachspürt.
Arundhati Roy’s gripping dispatch from Delhi: ‘Perhaps the rest of us can take lessons from our farmers and our cockroaches on how to become a little dangerous. The young have given us a gift. It is up to us all, every one of us to make what they have done matter.’ m.thewire.in/article/righ...
robin celikates@robin-c.bsky.social · 2w agoSolidarity with Indian youth & students protesting despite brutal repression! Here’s a statement from the Democratic Teachers’ Initiative in support of the protest against the government’s ‘diversionary weaponizing of religion & nationalism & its criminal disregard for the futures of the youth’
„Teile der migrantischen Linken haben übrigens schon lange erkannt, dass rechtsextremistischer Terror und staatlicher Terror zum Beispiel an den EU-Außengrenzen zusammenhängen. Faschismus beginnt nicht erst, wenn die AfD die Macht übernimmt.“ @vethompson.bsky.social via taz.de/Vanessa-E-Th...
Vanessa E. Thompson über Antifaschismus: „In einem formal liberalen Staat kann es Faschismus geben“
Antifaschistische Strukturen in Deutschland haben strukturelle Defizite, sagt Soziologin Vanessa E. Thompson. Doch es geht auch anders.
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Folks in Vancouver, Canada, pull up for this crucial symposium on Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis, organized by Brenna Bhandar, Jon Goldberg-Hiller, and Isabella Pojuner.
isabella pojuner@ipojuner.bsky.social · 3mo agoexcited to announce 'legality and impunity in times of crisis' at UBC later this month. speakers will be discussing political and legal forms of impunity in the current international (dis)order. if you're in so-called vancouver, register to attend here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...
This work goes back now more than a decade. In 2011/2012, when some were screaming “critical whiteness” in full swing, we were trying to figure out the possibilities of anti-racist solidarities and political urban blackness. It was before the murder of Trayvon Martin, /1
Rest in Power, Christy Schwundeck. Murdered by the German state on May 19, 2011, but never forgotten! The murder of Christy and the struggle for justice politicized many (long before 2013) in the struggle against state violence and its connection to criminalization of migration & poverty.
Into the Wasteland: A Conversation on Fascism and the Crisis of Capitalism, with Alberto Toscano, @vethompson.bsky.social, Bafta Sarbo, Jule Ulbricht et moi, on fascism and fascisization. Looking forward to it (the conversation, not the fascism)! spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...
Into the Wasteland: A Conversation on Fascism and the Crisis of Capitalism
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Sehr schöne Besprechung der Arbeiten von Trouillot, Williams und Gilroy, die auch die Unterschiede innerhalb der schwarzen radikalen Theoriebildung würdigt, von @rheinze.myatproto.social. Dem letzten Absatz stimme ich voll zu und würde noch Andaiye hinzufügen. www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199...
Schwarze Moderne und schwarze Kritik
Drei Neuübersetzungen der black radical tradition zeigen, wie die kapitalistische Moderne mit Kolonialismus und Rassismus verbunden ist
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Migration, Borders, and Solidarity in Transatlantic Perspective April 20, 6pm Join our panel debate with Ananya Roy (UCLA), Veronika Zablotsky (FU), Manuela Bojadžjiev (HU) & @vethompson.bsky.social (Queen‘s) at Refugio Berlin (Lenaustr. 3) www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/events/20...
Die aktuelle moralische Panik um die 'neue autoritäre Linke' ist vor allem ein weiterer Ausdruck der gegenwärtigen Faschisierung. nothing more, nothing less.
Sehr guter Bericht von Michèle Winkler, der sowohl die Terrortaktiken von ICE als auch hyperlokale Widerstände in den Blick nimmt: www.grundrechtekomitee.de/details/soli...
Grundrechtekomitee@grundrechtekomitee.bsky.social · 5mo ago3.000 am Tag. So viele Menschen sollen die US-amerikanischen Immigrationsbehörden täglich festnehmen. Über die Brutalität der US-Abschiebemaschinerie und ICE wird inzwischen auch hierzulande viel berichtet. Weniger Aufmerksamkeit erhält die Solidarität und der Widerstand dagegen.
† Marielle Franco Am 14. März 2018 wurde die linke Aktivistin und Stadträtin #MarielleFranco und ihr Fahrer Anderson Gomes im Zentrum von Rio de Janeiro erschossen. Marielle kämpfte gegen illegale Immobiliengeschäfte, Polizeigewalt und kriminellen Milizen. #Brasilien
Congratulations Anthony! 📕🎵 Everyone who wants to read a splendid analysis of abolition in the making by black leftists in the 1930s in the US (like Du Bois, Richard Wright, Marvel Cooke, William L. Patterson, Louise Thompson, and Langston Hughes) should read this book!
Anthony Obst@aobst.bsky.social · 5mo agoGot my hands on a physical copy of my book today! The digital version is now available open access @degruyterbrill.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@danielloick.bsky.social and I wrote a thing: "Surplus Fascism: Reflections on Current Tendencies of Abandonment in Germany and Beyond", for a SI in New German Critique. @robin-c.bsky.social and H. Kundnani also contributed some really good pieces, among others! read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...
Surplus Fascism: Reflections on Current Tendencies of Abandonment in Germany and Beyond
Given the current rise of right-wing authoritarian and fascist movements and political parties all around the world, not to mention the recent success of the AfD in Germany, there is a renewed debate ...
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German Memory Politics at a Crossroads Very happy to be part of this new special issue I wrote my article “Staatsräson as State Racism: Notes on the Authoritarian Turn in Contemporary Germany” last spring … and the authoritarian turn hasn’t slowed down read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...
Volume 53 Issue 1 (157) | New German Critique | Duke University Press
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»Rojava ist mehr als ein Territorium«, sagt die Soziologin Rosa Burç, und erklärt im ak Interview, was in Syrien derzeit bedroht wird und warum die sogenannte kurdische Frage ein gesamtregionaler Schlüsselkonflikt ist: www.akweb.de/ausgabe... 1/2
»Rojava ist mehr als ein Territorium«
Die Soziologin Rosa Burç erklärt, was in Syrien derzeit bedroht und warum die sogenannte kurdische Frage ein gesamtregionaler Schlüsselkonflikt ist
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On the latest assassination -- Zweli Mkhize, known as Khabazela, in the eNkanini Occupation in Allandale, near Midrand in Gauteng
The Land Mafias are Preying on the Poor – Abahlali baseMjondolo
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The huge budget for ICE mega warehouses reflects the most Trumpian mix: cronyist dealmaking in service of white nationalism... if local self-interest becomes a barrier to the expansion of Trump’s deportation regime, that’s no bad thing @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/02/17/w...
Can Trump’s Plan for Warehouse Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped?
ICE has the money it needs to turn warehouses into prisons for immigrants. But local pressure stopped one project in its tracks.
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Women in Exile need their House in Exile!! Please support and share if you can: www.startnext.com/home-in-exil...
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I’ve published an article with @ersjournal.com, which reads Marvel Cooke’s 1930s writing on the “Bronx Slave Market” as a form of abolitionist critique. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Care amid crisis: Marvel Cooke's abolitionist writing on the “Bronx Slave Market”
During the Great Depression, New Deal legislation enshrined what Cheryl Harris termed “whiteness as property” through ostensibly “colorblind” regulations like excluding domestic and agricultural wo...
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Sarah B. & Ida D. combined a great SI: "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe". Welfare carcerality, expropriation of migrant labor and surplusification, are some of the topics. Happy to be included in the convo: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
Volume 125 Issue 1 | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press
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Posting this gem by RWG on post-Keynesian militarism, crisis & surplus as a reminder, as it seems that some folks still do not understand what abolition is actually about (e.g. heard a convo where someone said that abolition is about abolishing "things"): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Danielle Araújo & Silvia Rodríguez invited us to be part of a symposium on anti-black violence in 2022, while there was some delay, I am so grateful that all the great pieces are now out in the world with antipode, including my piece on policing, un-breathing & black geographies in europe (oa).
Antipode@antipodeonline.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew #OpenAccess article by @vethompson.bsky.social -- "Policing as Un-Breathing and Geographies of Black Breathing in Europe" doi.org/10.1111/anti...
Happy to share that my article "Policing the surplus crisis, carceral racism and abolitionist resistance in Germany" was shortlisted for the ERS Martin Bulmer Prize, amongst several other great articles, and will be open access soon for some time.) www.tandfonline.com/journals/rer...
Martin Bulmer Prize
Explore the article collection: Martin Bulmer Prize. Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies.
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Materialist Feminist Analyses of Fascist Capitalism International Workshop Friday, 13 February 2026 Renate von Metzler-Saal (Cas. 1.801), Goethe-University Frankfurt With Melinda Cooper, Penelope Deutscher, Clara Mattei, Vanessa E. Thompson, Vanessa Wills Please register by February 6!
They should have learned: "if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night". (Baldwin)
"at one point you realize that there is no possibility of justice in the existing immigration system, that the immigration system is absolutely central to bringing fascism into our lives, to bringing racism into our lives" (Nandita Sharma). RIP Renee Nicole Good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8foE...
Fortress Fascism: Border Authoritarianism and Activist Struggles
YouTube video by Emergencies of Authoritarianism
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Given ICE’s violent, impunity-drenched core, at a moment when the Trump regime is leaning heavily into a vision of dominance grounded in aggression and lawlessness, such a killing (certainly not ICE's first) was all but inevitable. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/01/07/i...
This Isn’t the First Killing by ICE — and It Won’t Be the Last
ICE shot a woman point-blank in Minneapolis. The agency’s raids and impunity were always going to lead to death.
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hab für die LuXemburg einen Text zu antikolonialem und schwarzem radikalen Antifaschismus geschrieben: zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/schw...
Schwarze Kritik des Faschismus
Warum abolitionistische Perspektiven für sozialen Antifaschismus unverzichtbar sind
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