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

Labor

Activists, union leaders attend Peace & Justice Awards Breakfast
May 9, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
Over 120 union leaders, community, student, faith, and LGBT activists, attended the 21st Annual Hershel Walker 'Peace & Justice' Awards Breakfast here on May 4.
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Labor

6,000 miners rally in fight for pensions
May 2, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
"We are going to stand up, fight back and go to jail for our members - and that is something Peabody can't buy."
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Labor

Missouri unions fight right-to-work legislation
April 9, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
"This is nothing more than a politically motivated attack on workers designed to eliminate your voice."
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Labor

Missouri state workers lobby day
March 28, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
"They want to take away your right to support your union. They don't want us to be here."
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Labor

Governor calls unions the voice of American workers
March 26, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
"We live in a time in which more and more capital is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands," Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon told union delegates at the AFL-CIO Labor Legislative Conference.
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Labor

Sequester cuts mean idle planes, poultry plants and VA offices, says AFGE
March 22, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
Some 250 AFGE members and supporters rallied outside Republican U.S. Senator Roy Blunt's office in St. Louis, March 20, to protest the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts to vital social services and the military, known as...
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Opinion

Are Missouri Republicans insane?
March 15, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
Well, when it comes to Medicaid expansion they just might be. I ask because, who in their right mind rejects billions of dollars in federal funding?
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U.S.

Missouri coalition standing up for immigrant rights
March 8, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
"We have to do things that welcome immigrants to our state," Vanessa Crawford, executive director of MIRA, told members and activists from all over Missouri.
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