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

Opinion

Tea party movement’s new politics: dangerous shape-shifting
November 30, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
The usual norms of political discourse would emphasize a party's ability to ask pertinent questions and provide salient answers; to probe facts, poll members and seek solutions based largely on consensus or majority sentiment. Today's politics...
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Labor

Amy Dean: Labor must build “to challenge power”
November 19, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
To re-build the American labor movement we “can’t use the same tired old strategies and tactics,” Amy B. Dean told union members and community activists here at the Friends of the People’s World 7th Annual ‘Working...
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U.S.

Corporate agenda gets boost in Missouri
November 8, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
ST. LOUIS - As Missouri and the rest of the country come to terms with the results of the Nov. 2 mid-term elections, the Republican agenda here is already becoming crystal clear.
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U.S.

Town hall meet calls for U.S. manufacturing strategy
October 29, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
"We have to make manufacturing a priority again," Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., told over 250 union members, community activists and students here at a town-hall style meeting sponsored by the Alliance for American Manufacturing.
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Opinion

Foreclosure moratorium is our victory
October 18, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
As banks across the country begin implementing foreclosure moratoriums, it is important for the left to step back for a second and claim the victory - something we are usually pretty bad at.
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Opinion

Reform, the mid-term elections and the fight for power
October 11, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
If we don't objectively understand our - and our enemies' - strengths and weaknesses, how can we understand which terrain of struggle is most conducive to victory or defeat?
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U.S.

Missouri tax ballot initiative would gut services
September 30, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
Missouri voters also face a billionaire-funded November ballot initiative that would eliminate the earnings tax in St. Louis and Kansas City.
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Opinion

Lying politicians and the thing that counts
September 27, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky
With the 2010 midterm elections right around the corner it is important to understand two things: first, politicians will lie, and second, governing is much more difficult than opposing.
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