Tony Pecinovsky
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tony Pecinovsky
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Disrupting anti-communist myths: Charlene Mitchell and the NAARPR
March 15, 2023The 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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Ruling class still trembling as ‘Communist Manifesto’ turns 175
February 21, 2023On #RedBooksDay2023, why not read the reddest book of them all?
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Masters, Mates, & Pilots union studies work of civil rights leader Hugh Mulzac
August 8, 2022Tony 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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Honors for Hugh Mulzac, the captain who fought Jim Crow, Hitler, and McCarthy
September 29, 2021In 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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China doesn’t want a new Cold War
August 4, 2021If a U.S.-Soviet type of confrontation develops, it will be because of moves made in Washington, not Beijing.
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Links between domestic civil rights and anti-colonial struggles explored in new book
July 22, 2021Though primarily focused on the period after World War II, the book explores the earlier period too.
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Who was Juliet Stuart Poyntz? Some early Cold War history in new book
June 14, 2021In 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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Book highlights how early civil rights movement wedded Black liberation and anti-colonialism
May 27, 2021Few 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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