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

Disrupting anti-communist myths: Charlene Mitchell and the NAARPR
March 15, 2023 By Tony Pecinovsky
The Red Scare and Black Scare perpetuate the myth that Communists—particularly Black Communists—became a marginal political force after 1956. The purpose? To cripple collective resistance to racism.
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Culture

Ruling class still trembling as ‘Communist Manifesto’ turns 175
February 21, 2023 By Tony Pecinovsky
On #RedBooksDay2023, why not read the reddest book of them all?
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Culture

Masters, Mates, & Pilots union studies work of civil rights leader Hugh Mulzac
August 8, 2022 By Tony Pecinovsky
Tony Pecinovsky, vice president of International Publishers, was invited to give a talk on the new edition of Capt. Hugh Mulzac’s book, ‘A Star to Steer By.’
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Labor

Honors for Hugh Mulzac, the captain who fought Jim Crow, Hitler, and McCarthy
September 29, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky
In 1942, Hugh Mulzac became the first African American man of Caribbean descent to captain a U.S. Merchant Marine ship, the S.S. Booker T. Washington.
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Opinion

China doesn’t want a new Cold War
August 4, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky
If a U.S.-Soviet type of confrontation develops, it will be because of moves made in Washington, not Beijing.
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Culture

Links between domestic civil rights and anti-colonial struggles explored in new book
July 22, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky
Though primarily focused on the period after World War II, the book explores the earlier period too.
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Books

Who was Juliet Stuart Poyntz? Some early Cold War history in new book
June 14, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky
In the world of Red Scare anti-communist narratives, few have endured as long or been as impactful as the story of Juliet Stuart Poyntz.
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Culture

Book highlights how early civil rights movement wedded Black liberation and anti-colonialism
May 27, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky
Few books capture the dynamism and energy of what is now called the long civil rights movement better than Lindsey R. Swindall’s 'The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World.'
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