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

Politics

Socialist elected officials speak to the press at DSA convention
August 5, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
“It is incumbent upon us to reclaim the narrative, to reclaim what socialism means and what it looks like."
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Culture

Participants in the radical student upsurge speak out in this volume
August 1, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
The editors of this volume should be thanked for bringing these illuminating and insightful essays to publication.
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Culture

“Facing the Rising Sun”: Book illuminates history of Afro-Asian solidarity
March 16, 2018 By Tony Pecinovsky
Historian Gerald Horne shows how U.S. expansionist policy boomeranged and drove Negroes, Japanese, and Filipinos together, laying the foundation for an Afro-Asian alliance against white supremacy.
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Books

“Race News”: Chronicling the Black press and fight for justice
March 9, 2018 By Tony Pecinovsky
Black journalists in the commercial press packaged their mission of ending racial discrimination within a profit-oriented, objective presentation of current events, but "race news" wasn’t immune to politics.
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Opinion

This whole damned system is rigged!
February 26, 2018 By Tony Pecinovsky
But there is power in the union, and we will unrig this system and win!
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Books

New book illuminates history and contradictions of the early Black press
September 13, 2017 By Tony Pecinovsky
Claude Barnett and the ANP welcomed left and communist support when expedient, but jettisoned it as the political winds shifted.
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Books

‘Thank God for the Russian Revolution’: When America discovered Bolshevism
August 25, 2017 By Tony Pecinovsky
In 1917, American workers, radicals, and liberals discovered communism for the first time, and they liked what they saw.
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Books

Funding loyalty: The economics of the Soviet Communist Party
June 19, 2017 By Tony Pecinovsky
New book details the large-scale financial-political enterprise that was the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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