Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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Trump ends TPS for Hondurans; stokes racist frenzy over “caravan”
May 7, 2018Stoking voters’ fears about invasions by dark-skinned foreigners is part of the right wings’ bag of tricks in this election year.
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Tyrant Rios Montt dies, but his ghost still haunts Guatemala
April 25, 2018An exorcism is needed in Guatemala. Given our own government's backing of the country's murderous dictators, we have a responsibility to join with the Guatemalan people to get it done.
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Virginia: Will midterm elections bring an upset in November?
April 17, 2018The Democrats are feeling pretty good about this year.
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Refugee caravan approaches U.S., Trump blasts Mexico, declares DACA dead
April 3, 2018How does the caravan of Honduran refugees that Trump is so upset about relate to DACA? It doesn't.
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Murder of Black politician Marielle Franco produces uproar in Brazil
March 16, 2018The murder of Marielle Franco takes place in the context of a titanic political struggle.
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Virginia legislature wages battle for Medicaid expansion
March 9, 2018In some Republican-held districts, poor working class people, including whites who voted for Trump in 2016, are in severe trouble over the issue of health care costs. So supporters of Medicaid expansion have seen a chance...
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Fightback against neoliberal policies in Argentina Intensifies
March 5, 2018Communists say it is necessary to return to a united model of class struggle unionism, democratically organized and without bureaucratic abuses.
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The Koch Brothers’ Latin America “libertarian” roadshow
February 6, 2018The Koch brothers are spending $400 million in the 2018 U.S. midterms for far-right candidates and causes. They're doing the same in Latin America to help overthrow progressive governments.
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