Stanislav Vysotsky

critical sociologist and criminologist. author of American Antifa from Routledge. tweets are my own. @professorstas.bsky.social @[email protected]

[Stanislav Vysotsky @professor_stas]

Available now! American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism. The first sociological analysis of antifa activism.

https://t.co/GFQikXQ5BZ

[Stanislav Vysotsky @professor_stas]

The Worldwide Antifascism Research Network website is live now! With brief country histories of antifascism, antifascism scholarship bibliographies, and member profiles.

https://t.co/pQNFYZ5T2J

[Stanislav Vysotsky @professor_stas]

If you use the term ZOG, then you are not a leftist. This is an explicitly neo-Nazi acronym. On the rare occasion that someone who was on the left used this term in antifascist circles, they were immediately confronted.

[Stanislav Vysotsky @professor_stas]

But seriously, the American right absolutely projects their tactics and vision onto the left. That’s why they can’t see antifa for what it actually is - community self-defense.

[Stanislav Vysotsky @professor_stas]

Finally started listening to the most recent episodes of @bastardspod. It’s good to know that the right-wing is reading my antifa research.

https://t.co/QRxXtuTWg1

[Hüseyin Dogru (Back-Up) @redstreamnet]

Anti-fascists have mobilized to push back far-right mobs wreaking havoc in the UK.

Anti-fascist counter-protesters, mostly from the local Muslim community, have come together in the town of Bolton, northern England, to defend the area from far-right groups who have been conducting pogroms, looting local stores, assaulting immigrants, and vandalizing mosques. Organized mainly by remnants of the “English Defence League (EDL),” a fascist group that was active 10 years ago.

More clashes are expected later today as violent pogroms from the far-right continue across England, triggered by fake news accusing Muslims of a stabbing in the town of Southport.

[Stanislav Vysotsky @professor_stas]

I talked with @CreamCitySocial about the RNC and the laundering of fascism through conservatism in American politics.

[Cream City Social @CreamCitySocial]

Didn't watch the RNC? We've got you!

In our latest episode, we sit down with @professor_stas, an expert on fascism and far right movements, to unpack the extremist rhetoric from the convention.

Listen to it here or wherever you get your podcasts:

https://t.co/s7b7Jl6OEY

[Stanislav Vysotsky @professor_stas]

Resisting fascism: Fifty years of anti-fascism “from below” conference registration is open.

https://t.co/Gh9m2rfKVO

[Alice Speri @alicesperi]

The man who killed Portland anti-fascist Sean Kealiher in 2019 was sentenced to 17 years.

Two years ago I wrote a long story about Sean and why police was doing nothing to solve his murder.

https://t.co/bwXNJQFAe6

[Stanislav Vysotsky @professor_stas]

Thank you, @DrEricMadfis and @adamwlankford for including me in this book. My chapter discusses the way in which the culture of the far-right normalizes mass shootings as a movement tactic.

[Eric Madfis @DrEricMadfis]

Very proud to announce my new edited volume with @adamwlankford - it is the first book to explore why the United States has the greatest number and highest share of public mass shootings around the globe:
https://t.co/Y4FDdac6vH

[Stanislav Vysotsky @professor_stas]

Finally got on mastodon. You can find me at @[email protected].

[windward antifascist @windward_afa]

Yesterday in fascism: A transphobic banner was hung on the Mountain Highway overpass in #NorthVancouver. This group of "Freedom" regulars "protest" on the overpass every Thursday afternoon.

Trans people. They're talking about trans people.

cc @NSPrideAlliance, @NVanDistrict

[Institute for Strategic Dialogue @ISDglobal]

Since Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, antisemitism on the platform has almost doubled.

Read the most comprehensive analysis of antisemitism on Twitter, out now from ISD and CASM Technology. https://t.co/COY8C2IgRb

[windward antifascist @windward_afa]

⚠️Hate Speech Saturday in Vancouver⚠️

There will another rally at CTV (Robson & Burrard) on March 18. The expected speakers are awful & should not be tolerated in this city👇

(There will be the usual convoy in from Langley, but this is expected to be small.)

[Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias]

“It would give a really powerful tool of repression that could be used against not just anti-fascist activists, but really any left-wing...protesters because you could just sort of slap them with a broad ‘Antifa’ label" - @professor_stas to @willcarless https://t.co/4qecbTgbYs

[Stanislav Vysotsky @professor_stas]

@donmonet @devinzshaw Alas, it doesn’t generally lend itself to content analysis of lyrics, but we’ll take any suggestions of jazz songs since 2010 that have lyrics that can be analyzed.

[Stanislav Vysotsky @professor_stas]

I'm working on a research project on antifascist music and compiling a list of antifascist bands and songs active/released since 2010. Any suggestions of bands/songs would be greatly appreciated.

[Stanislav Vysotsky @professor_stas]

@lukacs_georg Neckbeard Deathcamp were the first one my collaborator and I came up with for the list.

[GNET @GNET_research]

Today, @arbradley and @__Char1ey__ summarise the findings of @techvsterrorism's 'State of Play' report which analysed trends in how terrorist and violent extremist actors adapted their online tactics to remain online throughout 2022.

https://t.co/JRy0L1mjQn

[Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihateca]

1/ There is no gender equality without trans women.

Trans women are women — and they deserve our love, respect, and care. 🧵

https://t.co/gRQftOt0tf

[Alexander Reid Ross @areidross]

Semi-regular reminder that Russia was planning to anschluss Belarus, expanding their border all the way to Poland and further threatening the Baltic States. Their invasion of Ukraine is pure imperialist belligerence based on their own, not NATO's expansionist fantasies.