Tony Pecinovsky

Tony Pecinovsky is the president of the St. Louis Workers' Education Society (WES), a 501c3 non-profit organization chartered by the St. Louis Central Labor Council as a Workers Center. His articles have been published in the St. Louis Labor Tribune, Alternet, Shelterforce, Political Affairs, and Z-Magazine, among other publications. He is the author of "Let Them Tremble: Biographical Interventions Marking 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA," and is available to speak at your community center, union hall or campus.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tony Pecinovsky

Culture

“Intersectional before it was cool”: The women’s movement under state socialism
October 3, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
Without 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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Culture

Second World, Second Sex: How the socialist women of the East shaped feminism
September 5, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
The 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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World

Review: Russian revolution revered as trailblazing event in the developing world
August 20, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
"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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Culture

IWO: Book traces workers’ efforts to insure themselves against capitalism’s failures
August 19, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
The 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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Politics

2020 elections and organizational questions dominate Democratic Socialists of America convention
August 6, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
“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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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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