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

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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News

Alphaeus Hunton: A life devoted to equality, liberation, and internationalism
February 26, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky
As an architect of the early struggle for African-American equality and Black liberation in Africa, Hunton was committed to exposing the links between Jim Crow and imperialism.
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Politics

Is CNN jumping on the red-baiting bandwagon?
February 4, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky
Article tries to put communist victims of government attacks in the same boat with Trumpite rioters who killed people on Jan. 6.
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Culture

Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
January 28, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky
Washington Bullets is a short, concise book jam-packed full of information.
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