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

Social Forum: In jobs fight, America will find its soul again
June 24, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
DETROIT - "This struggle for jobs can be the glue that holds us all together, that allows us to be more than we are - it allows 'us' to be 'we'." the AFL-CIO's Nick Unger told...
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Labor

Organized unity in action needed, says labor leader
June 22, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
"Organized, mobilized unity in action - that is what will save the ordinary American," Stewart Acuff, of the Utility Workers' Union of America, told a packed Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board meeting here June 18.
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Labor

America’s Future NOW! panel calls for clean energy
June 9, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
"There is a clear link between clean energy and economic development," Ron Ruggiero, field director for the Apollo Alliance, told workshop participants here at the America's Future NOW! conference June 8.
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U.S.

Progressives must win “hearts and minds” of working people
June 8, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
WASHINGTON - In the first 18 months of the Obama presidency, national health care reform was passed, SCHIP was expanded, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was passed, and the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created or...
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U.S.

Progressive meet to chart course for 2010
June 4, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
WASHINGTON - Thousands of progressive leaders, trade unionists and activists will strategize here June 7-9 at the America's Future NOW! Conference.
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Opinion

On public sector unions: A reply to Mort Zuckerman
May 27, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
Recently I read with dismay an article by Mort Zuckerman, the editor of U.S. News & World Report, on the Huffingtonpost.com titled 'Breaking the Public Sector Unions' Stranglehold on State and Local Governments.' First, that's a...
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Labor

Fishermen take a beating from oil spill
May 14, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
NEW ORLEANS - Chet Held, 48, has been fishing the waters here off the Gulf Coast since he was a little boy.
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U.S.

BP profits, and people “get stuck” cleaning up mess
May 12, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
Three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon exploded off the coast of Louisiana, killing 11 workers, over 200,000 gallons of oil are still being pumped into the ocean every day.
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