Tony Pecinovsky

Tony Pecinovsky is the author of "Let Them Tremble: Biographical Interventions Marking 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA" and author/editor of "Faith In The Masses: Essays Celebrating 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA." His forthcoming book is titled "The Cancer of Colonialism: W. Alphaeus Hunton, Black Liberation, and the Daily Worker, 1944-1946." Pecinovsky has appeared on C-SPAN’s "Book TV" and speaks regularly on college and university campuses across the country.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tony Pecinovsky

U.S.

Move underway to expand early voting in Missouri
February 3, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky
Voters in the Show Me State may have a special reason to get out the vote this fall, as a coalition is busily collecting signatures to qualify an early voting initiative to be placed on the...
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“Reds At The Blackboard”: More positive view of today’s Communist teachers
January 22, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky
More historians are beginning to paint a more objective, balanced, and positive picture of the role of the CPUSA in the U.S. labor movement.
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“Negro Comrades of the Crown” should be required reading
January 15, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky
Horne focuses on the reactionary nature of U.S. slavery and racism, and demonstrates the vanguard role of African Americans in the struggle for freedom.
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“Opposing Jim Crow”: How African Americans helped shape Soviet antiracism
January 7, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky
"Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937" critically investigates what she calls "Soviet antiracism."
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“Club Red”: Vacation, Soviet-style
December 19, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
Koenker also paints a vivid, detailed picture of a government sincerely attempting to live up to its promise of "the good life" for its citizens.
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Black superheroes forever changed comic books
December 17, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
Adilifu Nama's Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes does a great job of introducing many of today's comic book fans with the history of African Americans in comic books and pop culture generally.
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“Black Revolutionary” explores life of William Patterson and global freedom fight
November 8, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
In Gerald Horne's new book, "Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle," we are privy to William L. Patterson's transformation from well-to-do lawyer to a revolutionary.
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U.S.

St. Louis hearing spotlights government subsidies of fast food giants
November 1, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
ST. LOUIS - "We are here to help create a climate where the denial of workers' rights will not be tolerated," Joan Suarez, co-chair of the St. Louis Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board, said as...
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