Vanessa E. Thompson

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 ...

@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...

Volume 53 Issue 1 (157) | New German Critique | Duke University Press

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...

»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

»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...
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On the latest assassination -- Zweli Mkhize, known as Khabazela, in the eNkanini Occupation in Allandale, near Midrand in Gauteng

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.

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...

Women in Exile need their House in Exile!! Please support and share if you can: www.startnext.com/home-in-exil...

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...

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....

Volume 125 Issue 1 | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press

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...

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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/...

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).

Rückschlag der Gewalt Repression und Gewalt durch die US-Migrationspolizei ICE wird oft als »imperialer Bumerang« erklärt: eine Wiederkehr der Gewalt aus den Kolonien ins imperiale Zentrum.

Ich hab mir ein paar Überlegungen zum „imperialen Bumerang“ gemacht:

Martin Bulmer Prize Explore the article collection: Martin Bulmer Prize. Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies.

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...

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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!

Thanks for this! To add: Gegen teilen.
Ein Gespräch über widerständige Gemeinschaften und ihre affektiven Infrastrukturen
Gespräch mit Caroline Adler | Çiğdem Inan | @danielloick.bsky.social diffrakt.space/de/events/ge...

They should have learned: "if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night". (Baldwin)

YouTube video by Emergencies of Authoritarianism Fortress Fascism: Border Authoritarianism and Activist Struggles

"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...

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.

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...

Schwarze Kritik des Faschismus Warum abolitionistische Perspektiven für sozialen Antifaschismus unverzichtbar sind

hab für die LuXemburg einen Text zu antikolonialem und schwarzem radikalen Antifaschismus geschrieben: zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/schw...

Studies in Political Economy / Recherches en économie politique Volume 106, Issue 2 of Studies in Political Economy / Recherches en économie politique

"Critical Engagements with Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism" is now out with Studies in Political Economy. Some rad pieces, @raulzelik.bsky.social and I also contributed a piece: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsor20/1...

here you can support the comrades from cissie ghoul house, a 1000 people strong squad, which is part of the housing justice, tenant and shacks movement: reclaimthecity.org.za

political gatherings in cape town, south africa, towards an abolitionist international were fierce and so inspiring! from neville alexander workshop to cissie ghoul house organizing, Amandla ✊🏽

Große Freude! Alex Demirović und @vethompson.bsky.social werden Keynotes zu unserer nächsten #KriKoWi -Tagung zum Thema „Antifaschistische Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft“ vom 16. - 18. April 2026 in Jena beisteuern. Deadline für Tagungseinreichungen ist der 5. Januar: krikowi.net/cfs_jena/

Excited that my paper ‘Staatsräson as State Racism’ is part of this forthc. issue on ‘German Memory Politics at a Crossroads’
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....

tl;dr #55 Angela Davis: «Eine Gesellschaft ohne Gefängnisse?» | Mit Vanessa E. Thompson - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Die Schriftstellerin, Aktivistin und Philosophin Angela Davis wurde in den 1970er Jahren zur Ikone der Black-Power-Bewegung. Heute zählt sie zu den wichtigsten Vertreter*innen des Abolitionismus – ein...

super Folge mit @vethompson.bsky.social zur großen Angela Davis:

www.rosalux.de/mediathek/me...

Nandita, beste:)

Ja, der pro-Israel und Staatsräson-Talk von einigen (wenigen!) beim nd ist Teil des Problems. Ich unterstütze die Zeitung weiterhin trotzdem und jetzt erst recht, weil die Kämpfe um Hegemonie da eben auch geführt werden müssen, und das nd für linke Medien & Politik in Schland weiter wichtig bleibt!

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

Don't just report the fascism, report the resistance, too

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

"Invoking the Insurrection Act would not, however, be a flip switch moving us from a functional democracy into fascism; rather,it would be an expansion of already existent fascist action . It’s tempting to urge protesters to avoid giving Trump a pretext for escalation.That would be a grave mistake."

Wir gedenken Kupa I. M. Mutombo, der am 6.10.22 von den cops in Berlin getötet wurde. Erinnern heißt kämpfen!
Und am Samstag diskutieren wir mit Angela Wilhelm, der Schwester von Nzoy, Justine Seewald-Krieger, der Mutter von Sammy Baker, u.a. über Aufklärung von unten: cilip.de/2025/09/18/t...

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Inhalt der Zeitschrift „ Südlink“ und Editorial

Heute die internationalistische #Zeitschrift „ #Südlink“ als Probeexemplar erhalten.
Vielen Dank dafür an @mkraemer.bsky.social !
Der Schwerpunkt zu #Dekolonialisierung und #Postkolonialismus ist mit Texten u.a. von @he-mel.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & Simone Schlindwein sehr lesenswert.