Tony Pecinovsky
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tony Pecinovsky
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Review: “To The Promised Land,” King’s fight for economic justice
January 13, 2020As a short book, Honey’s To The Promised Land packs quite a punch.
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‘Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice’: A welcome new book
October 28, 2019The story of Chicano Communists is a quintessential American one and absolutely relevant to our understanding of who we are as a nation.
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“Intersectional before it was cool”: The women’s movement during state socialism
October 3, 2019Without a doubt, the Cold War was a very productive moment for women's rights because the Eastern Bloc once championed them on the international stage.
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Second World, Second Sex: How the socialist women of the East shaped feminism
September 5, 2019The world’s workers in general—and women in particular—benefited from the “ideological tension” created by state socialism and its allies in the Third World.
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Review: Russian revolution revered as trailblazing event in the developing world
August 20, 2019"Like a brilliant sun, the [1917] October [Bolshevik] Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions of oppressed and exploited people around the world."
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IWO: Book traces workers’ efforts to insure themselves against capitalism’s failures
August 19, 2019The International Workers Order was an insurance company like none ever seen - a Communist-led mutual aid society to shield its members from capitalist evils.
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2020 elections and organizational questions dominate Democratic Socialists of America convention
August 6, 2019“Unity is hard to build,” one delegate said. “It’s messy. There will be bumps in the road. It can be frustrating, but it’s something we have to deal with.”
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Socialist elected officials speak to the press at DSA convention
August 5, 2019“It is incumbent upon us to reclaim the narrative, to reclaim what socialism means and what it looks like."
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