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

Opinion

Reflections on the Communist Party convention
July 10, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky
Recently the CPUSA held its 30th National Convention in Chicago. It was an impressive event showcasing the party's depth of work throughout the movements for justice.
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Arts

A largely forgotten tale: Communist Party’s role in the South
June 24, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky
The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941 challenges the notion that Southern white workers were incapable of action with African Americans.
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U.S.

Missouri Republicans fail to achieve much of their agenda
May 21, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky
"Their whole legislative agenda revolves around this one central idea: Weaken unions and increase profits for big corporations."
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Labor

Missouri workers fight anti-union legislation
April 1, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky
"HB 1617 is a patronizing bill that doesn't treat state workers like adults, it treats them like children who don't know what they are doing when they sign an authorization card to join a union."
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Labor

Outpouring in Missouri Capital demands end to attacks on labor
March 27, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky
"Today we are united, side by side; we have to stick together, because if we lose, everyone who works for a living will pay the price."
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Labor

Faculty in tough negotiations at Harris-Stowe State U
February 27, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky
"It often feels like students are an afterthought and professors are an inconvenience."
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U.S.

Communists and the long struggle for African American equality
February 25, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky
Throughout its 95-year history the Communist Party USA has always been in the vanguard of the struggle for African American equality.
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Arts

We Shall Be Free!: Black Communist Protest in Seven Voices
February 12, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky
In his preface, Walter T. Howard writes that, he hopes to "break new ground in the scholarship of the African American left."
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