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

A Stranger to Myself: Losing oneself in war
October 14, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
As a German soldier on the frontlines of Hitler’s war machine, Willy Peter Reese endured and inflicted the unimaginable, saw the horrible and came face-to-face with the life and death realities of war.
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Labor

Workers charge Red Cross with unfair labor practices
October 9, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
ST. LOUIS – “I’ve worked 96 hours in a single week,” Jason Withey, a Red Cross driver from Buffalo, N.Y., told the World here on Oct. 8. “I could live better working at Wal-Mart.”
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U.S.

St. Louis activists stage die-in at Wellpoint
October 7, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
Health care protestors stage die-in at corporate crime scene.
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U.S.

Rally slams Wellpoint for ‘indefensible’ health care role
September 24, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
ST. LOUIS – “We all know people without health care. These aren’t just statistics. These are people, our neighbors, our friends, our families,” Pastor Mary Albert told over 300 health care reform activists here as they...
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Labor

Labor Day, Abe Lincoln and the EFCA
September 13, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
I’ve been walking in the Labor Day parade here in St. Louis since I can remember. I come from a union family and as a union member and activist, I’ve always felt compelled to spend this...
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U.S.

Missouri state capital rallies for health care reform
September 3, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – “I was too expensive, so they got rid of me,” Robert Green told hundreds of rural Missourians who rallied for health care reform here on the Capital steps September 2.
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U.S.

1500 rally for health care in St. Louis
August 31, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
ST. LOUIS – “Health care reform is about family values,” Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed told over 1,500 union members, community leaders and activists here at an Organizing for America (OFA) health care rally August,...
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U.S.

How the right wing manufactures perceived truths
August 28, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
If you’ve ever wondered how the right wing has been so successful at manufacturing perceived truths, Charles P. Pierce’s new book "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free" is a...
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