Tony Pecinovsky

Tony Pecinovsky is president of International Publishers. He is also the author/editor of Let Them Tremble: Biographical Interventions Marking 100 Years of the Communist Party USA, Faith In The Masses: Essays Celebrating 100 Years of the Communist Party USA, and 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

Black superheroes forever changed comic books
December 17, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
Adilifu Nama's Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes does a great job of introducing many of today's comic book fans with the history of African Americans in comic books and pop culture generally.
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“Black Revolutionary” explores life of William Patterson and global freedom fight
November 8, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
In Gerald Horne's new book, "Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle," we are privy to William L. Patterson's transformation from well-to-do lawyer to a revolutionary.
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U.S.

St. Louis hearing spotlights government subsidies of fast food giants
November 1, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
ST. LOUIS - "We are here to help create a climate where the denial of workers' rights will not be tolerated," Joan Suarez, co-chair of the St. Louis Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board, said as...
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Labor

Fast food giants cost America $7 billion in McTaxes
October 16, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
Two recently published reports shed damning light on the high cost of low wages in the fast food industry.
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Labor

Miners encircle Peabody coal company’s headquarters
September 25, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
"This is a struggle for all that is good and decent in our country," Steve Earle, UMWA District 12 vice president, told nearly 2,000 mine workers.
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U.S.

Right wing rebuked in Missouri
September 20, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
Right-wing Republicans in the Missouri legislature and their main financial supporter, libertarian billionaire Rex Sinquefield, suffered a stinging defeat.
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Opinion

Fast-food workers meet labor movement: a super-sized duo
September 12, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
There is an emerging nationwide movement of low-wage fast-food workers who have begun to set the tone regarding the federal minimum wage, fast-food workers' rights and the future of service sector work generally.
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Opinion

Big business behind Rick Perry’s push in Missouri
August 28, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky
Rick Perry, the right-wing Republican governor of Texas, is running TV and radio ads - backed by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce - attacking the Democratic governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon.
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