EPO is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 publisher of non-fiction

Non-fiction

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 books. It publishes approximately 25 books a year in Dutch and French, mainly centered around politics

Politics

Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...

, history

History

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 and sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

. These books tend to be of progressive

Progressivism

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 nature. The publisher is closely linked to the Workers Party of Belgium

Workers Party of Belgium

The Workers' Party of Belgium is a Marxist political party in Belgium. It is one of the few parties that operates as a single Belgian party...

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Belgian and international authors who were published by EPO include Manuel Abramowicz

Manuel Abramowicz

Manuel Abramowicz is a far-left Belgian reporter, specialist of the far right.He initially was a member of the youth wing of the Parti ouvrier socialiste , a trotskyist movement, currently known as the Revolutionary Communist League...

, Jan Blommaert, André van Bosbeke, Krista Bracke, Lucas Catherine, Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...

, Hans Depraetere, Jenny Dierickx, Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Hughes Galeano is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego and Las venas abiertas de América Latina which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and...

, Ivo Hermans, Peter-Tom Jones, Els Keytsman, Jaap Kruithof, Ludo Martens

Ludo Martens

Ludo Martens was a Belgian historian noted for his work on francophone Africa and the Soviet Union. Martens wrote on the political history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he has lived and travelled extensively....

, Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti is an award-winning, internationally known American political scientist, historian, and culture critic who has been writing on a wide range of both scholarly and popular subjects for over forty years. He has taught at several universities and colleges and has been a frequent guest...

, Marc Spruyt, Paul Van Nevel

Paul Van Nevel

Paul Van Nevel is a Belgian conductor, musicologist and art historian. In 1971 he founded the Huelgas Ensemble, a choir dedicated to polyphony from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Van Nevel is known for hunting out little known polyphonic medieval works to perform.He grew up in a musical...

, Robert Van Yper, Peter Vermeulen, Jan Willems, and Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...

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External links

• EPO Publishing house