Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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South Sudan: Communists speak out on crisis
January 9, 2014In spite of efforts to get talks going, fighting continues between factions aligned with President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar.
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Mexico after 20 years of NAFTA: poor and getting poorer
January 6, 201420 years after the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force, farmers and workers in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada suffer from corporate profiteering.
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Richard Hart, Jamaican Marxist and historian, dies
January 6, 2014Richard Hart, a towering figure of the Jamaican and Caribbean left, died in Bristol, England, on Dec. 21, 2013, at 96 years of age.
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South Africa, then and now
December 20, 2013In all the words emitted on the occasion of the passing of Nelson Mandela, one thread questions whether anything significant was accomplished with the end of apartheid.
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Unhappy International Migrants Day
December 19, 2013Migrants, who arrive by the thousands in Lampedusa fleeing war and insecurity in Africa/Syria, are shown being stripped naked and hosed down by authorities.
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Central African Republic: More bloody fruits of colonialism
December 17, 2013It's the same old story, the Central African Republic is one of the richest countries in Africa and one of the poorest in the world. Vast wealth is extracted but not enough comes in to maintain...
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What to expect in Latin America in 2014
December 16, 2013This year in Latin America began with the tragedy of the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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Venezuela municipal elections bolster Maduro’s leftist policies
December 13, 2013Venezuelans went to the polls to elect mayors and municipal councils on Dec. 8.
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