Tony Pecinovsky
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tony Pecinovsky
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News
Alphaeus Hunton: A life devoted to equality, liberation, and internationalism
February 26, 2021As an architect of the early struggle for African-American equality and Black liberation in Africa, Hunton was committed to exposing the links between Jim Crow and imperialism.
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Politics
Is CNN jumping on the red-baiting bandwagon?
February 4, 2021Article tries to put communist victims of government attacks in the same boat with Trumpite rioters who killed people on Jan. 6.
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Culture
Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
January 28, 2021Washington Bullets is a short, concise book jam-packed full of information.
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Culture
REVIEW: ‘Ballad of an American’—Civil rights giant Paul Robeson’s illustrated bio
December 4, 2020Actor, athlete, singer, anti-fascist fighter, and defender of democracy—Paul Robeson did it all.
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Culture
New graphic book helps to ‘Unrig’ our broken election system
October 30, 2020A better articulation of the class dynamics at work in our political system would have added to Newman and O’Connor’s overall analysis of our broken democracy, but this is still a very valuable book.
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Culture
The anti-communist history of Communist labor organizers on the waterfront
October 23, 2020Vernon L. Pedersen’s “orthodox” biases steer what would otherwise be a useful and informative study into the murky waters of anti-communism.
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Culture
Book review: Folk singers, the Communist Party, and the FBI, 1939-1956
September 18, 2020They were partisan. They chose sides. And their politics were well known, including to the FBI.
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Culture
Red, Black, White: The Communist Party in Alabama
April 24, 2020The seeds of the Civil Rights Movement, of Black Liberation, and more were planted in the South by Communists in the Depression years.
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