Tony Pecinovsky

Tony Pecinovsky is president of International Publishers. He is also the author/editor of Let Them Tremble: Biographical Interventions Marking 100 Years of the Communist Party USA, Faith In The Masses: Essays Celebrating 100 Years of the Communist Party USA, and 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.

Missourians push to cap payday loan interest rates
January 13, 2012 By Tony Pecinovsky
Payday loan companies can charge up to 1,950 percent interest; Missouri voters may be able to change that in November.
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U.S.

Missouri coalition aims to put minimum wage increase on Nov. ballot
January 6, 2012 By Tony Pecinovsky
Missouri's minimum wage workers could be getting a $1 an hour raise next year - currently, Missouri's minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.
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Opinion

The real turkey talk at our dinner table
December 2, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky
My mother and stepfather live in Festus, Mo. They are working class folks.
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Opinion

What do trade deals have to do with the Occupy movement?
October 31, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky
What do these two seemingly different events - the recent China trade deal and the Occupy movement - have in common?
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U.S.

“Occupy” demonstrations erupt in St. Louis
October 7, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky
OccupySTL is part of a nationwide movement that started with the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York City.
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Labor

Postal workers rally in St. Louis (video)
September 29, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky
Postal workers held hundreds of simultaneous rallies all across the country to bring attention to a bill that would address the manufactured financial crisis facing the Postal Service.
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U.S.

Missouri workers: Christie’s plan “sick and wrong”
September 28, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky
Chris Christie, a Republican, threw union contracts out the window and enacted laws forcing unions to pay more into their pension and health care benefits packages.
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U.S.

Will Republicans let “Made in Missouri” happen?
September 23, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky
Missouri's Republican-dominated Senate did something unexpected recently during the legislative special session.
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