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International law=Rules Made by White People for Brown and Black People.

Hope that clarifies.

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...

Prison abolition - Contemporary Political Theory Contemporary Political Theory -

New essay, "Abolition in Three Movements" in the Prison abolition and political theory critical exchange in Contemporary Political Theory. Really proud to be in conversation with these brilliant thinkers. Shoutout @amc-etc.bsky.social for organizing.
Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Nicht direkt zur deutschen intellectual history aber zu Du Bois in Deutschland haben Amerikanist*innen teilweise schon vor einigen Jahren gearbeitet, z.B. Günter Lenz und Sieglinde Lemke (und ich selbst in jüngerer Vergangenheit ja auch :) )

More than 600 people have died trying to cross Mediterranean in 2026, UN says Deadliest start to a year in more than a decade, according to the International Organization for Migration

More than 600 people have died trying to cross Mediterranean in 2026, UN says. Deadliest start to a year in more than a decade

Every one of these deaths is a political choice

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Today, in honour of WEB DuBois's birthday in 1868, the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social features the hand-drawn infographics DuBois made with his students to depict the conditions of African-American life in 1900.

Arts-based pedagogy all those years ago!
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Fugitive Sanctuaries It has only ever been migrant movements, rather than benevolent states, that have granted true safety for the endangered.

"Sanctuary has never arrived as a gift from the benevolent liberal state to immigrant peoples. Rather, true sanctuary, one that ensures protection for all seeking refuge from harm, has only ever manifested itself in the practice of migrant movements."

The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe Black anti-fascists have long warned about creeping fascism, from slavery to mass incarceration to ICE terror.

The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe truthout.org/articles/the...

Die Titelseite der taz zeigt ein Foto von der Demonstration „Gerechtigkeit fuer Lorenz in Oldenburg“, die am 08.11.2025 stattfand. Menschen stehen hinter einem Transparent mit der Aufschrift No Justice, No Peace! Disarm the police! Davor steht Suraj Mailitafi, Sprecher der Initiative „Gerechtigkeit für Lorenz“. Er spricht in ein Megafon. Als Überschrift das Zitat: „Das Vertrauen ist mit Lorenz gestorben“

Schwarze Menschen fürchten um ihre Sicherheit in Deutschland, nicht erst seit der 21-jährige Lorenz A. getötet wurde. Denn Politiker*innen ignorieren den strukturellen Rassismus bei der Polizei. Mehr dazu heute in der taz und auf taz.de.

That ‘A System Cannot Fail…’ Quote? It’s Not From W.E.B. DuBois Who said that "a system cannot fail those it was never built to protect"?

Stammt wohl nicht von Du Bois diese Aussage. time.com/3604241/w-e-...

The Funambulist 64 - The No-State Solution Can liberation ever take the form of a State?

This issue asks: can liberation ever take the form of a state?

Cover artwork by Samir Harb.

Preorder now to receive your print copy at the earliest.

thefunambulist.net/shop/no-stat...

Franklin Research Center Announces the Opening of the Sylvia Wynter Papers, Exhibition, and Symposium - The Devil's Tale Post contributed by John B. Gartrell, director John Hope Franklin Research Center  The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvi...

The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3

blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2...

Das Berliner Projekt #Schnellgericht sucht Verteidiger*innen für beschleunigte Verfahren, die im Viertelstundentakt durchgezogen werden. Auch prekarisierten Angeklagten steht rechtlicher Schutz zu. Die Maschinerie des Aburteilens muss gestoppt werden!
www.rav.de/publikatione...

#RAV-InfoBrief

Wenn der Faschismus kommt, gibt es standing ovations as it turns out

Many thanks, Daniel!

Dieses Geld fließt vor allem in immer mehr Polizei an genau diesen Orten. Organisierte Vernachlässigung bedingt organisierte Gewalt. Dazu auch: www.racismontrial.org/de/blog/news...

Ich hab über die tödliche Migrationspolitik der EU geschrieben:

„Die Wahrheit ist, dass Menschenrechtsverletzungen von Deutschland und der EU mehr als nur in Kauf genommen werden. Sie sind das Mittel zur Durchsetzung der europäischen Migrationspolitik.“

The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below.

This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

Hier geht es zur Petition für eine langfristige Sicherung des Aufenthalts von Sidy und Lassana Dramé: www.openpetition.de/petition/onl...

»ICE should be abolished, to be sure, and it’s important that in saying this that we not be too literal: ICE isn’t the only agency attacking immigrants and allies of immigrants. … When we say ICE we really mean all of them. We mean The Border Power. All of it.«

Polizei-Umgang mit psychisch Erkrankten: Diagnose Risiko Die Berliner Polizei will potenziell gefährliche Menschen mit psychischer Erkrankung erfassen. Bür­ge­rrecht­ler:innen sehen eine fatale Entwicklung.

Faschisierung bedeutet auch, dass die Polizei ein System entwickelt, mit dem sie Menschen mit psychischer Erkrankung erfasst und überwacht. taz.de/Polizei-Umga...

Sharepic mit dem Zitat: „Die Populärkultur ist einer der Orte, an denen dieser Kampf für und gegen eine Kultur der Mächtigen ausgetragen wird.“ Stuart Hall, geboren am 3. Februar 1932.

Am 3. Februar 1932 wird Stuart Hall in Kingston (Jamaika) geboren. Er gilt wie kein anderer als das Gesicht der „Cultural Studies“.

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Deportation-industrial complex

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

The largest infrastructure projects currently being built in the US appear to be data centers and detention centers. The AI boom has coincided with ICE becoming the most heavily funded government agency. It's hard not to see a connection: This is the architectures of digital fascism

RWG: “Many people think if they just stay off the radar in some way, whatever way that is, that they will not be caught up by the trouble. And certainly Alberto Toscano’s book [Late Fascism] and other books show us again and again that there is no outside. And therefore there is no time to lose.”

This is part of a special issue on Cheryl Harris’ “Whiteness as Property”. I draw on Harris to show how Cooke highlighted both the expropriation of Black women’s care work + how domestic workers cultivated care practices for unsettling the property regime as such, toward the horizon of abolition.

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....

‘We cannot separate imperialism from domestic militarization’: Understanding the links between ICE, Gaza, and U.S. foreign policy Mondoweiss interviews author Harsha Walia about the history of ICE and how Trump’s immigration crackdown is closely linked to U.S. imperialism abroad, including in Palestine.

“Our task as social movements is to uproot the system of immigration enforcement, whether it’s ICE or CBP or DHS or the border itself.” @harshawalia.bsky.social

128 | Introducing: Marxism & Religion, Part I: Martin Luther King, Jr. | What's Left of Philosophy Get more from What's Left of Philosophy on Patreon

new episode out now! we kick off our new series on Marxism & Religion with a discussion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose universalist ethos and principled nonviolence shine a light on the righteous path to liberation in these dark times www.patreon.com/posts/128-in...

“This Is Not America” Is the Most Dangerous Lie We Keep Telling Ourselves The idea that large-scale state violence and repression are foreign to US soil is a dangerous fiction.

Instead of reckoning with the long and violent architecture of U.S. history, much of peoples' search for explanations collapses into racialized tropes and xenophobic reassurance: This isn’t Afghanistan. This isn’t China. This is America. We have rights. This is a democracy. This isn’t who we are.