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

St. Louis says farewell to Jim Wilkerson, Black labor leader and CBTU founder
November 8, 2024 By Tony Pecinovsky
Wilkerson was part of a larger nationwide movement against racism and for equality within largely white skilled trades.
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Culture

‘Fear of a Socialist America’: Research on Black radicals featured at historians conference
April 24, 2024 By Tony Pecinovsky
Thousands of scholars and historians gathered in the Big Easy for the 2024 Organization of American Historians conference, where a range of radical and progressive panels and workshops were held.
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Labor

Black trade unionists challenge corporate power in America
September 7, 2023 By Tony Pecinovsky
They link the fight for workers’ rights to the fights in the electoral arena.
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Politics

Disrupting anti-communist myths: Charlene Mitchell and the NAARPR
March 15, 2023 By Tony Pecinovsky
The Red Scare and Black Scare perpetuate the myth that Communists—particularly Black Communists—became a marginal political force after 1956. The purpose? To cripple collective resistance to racism.
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Culture

Ruling class still trembling as ‘Communist Manifesto’ turns 175
February 21, 2023 By Tony Pecinovsky
On #RedBooksDay2023, why not read the reddest book of them all?
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Culture

Masters, Mates, & Pilots union studies work of civil rights leader Hugh Mulzac
August 8, 2022 By Tony Pecinovsky
Tony Pecinovsky, vice president of International Publishers, was invited to give a talk on the new edition of Capt. Hugh Mulzac’s book, ‘A Star to Steer By.’
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Labor

Honors for Hugh Mulzac, the captain who fought Jim Crow, Hitler, and McCarthy
September 29, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky
In 1942, Hugh Mulzac became the first African American man of Caribbean descent to captain a U.S. Merchant Marine ship, the S.S. Booker T. Washington.
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Opinion

China doesn’t want a new Cold War
August 4, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky
If a U.S.-Soviet type of confrontation develops, it will be because of moves made in Washington, not Beijing.
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