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

Culture

‘A Threat of the First Magnitude’: A history of FBI counterintelligence and infiltration
April 3, 2020 By Tony Pecinovsky
During the 1960s and 1970s the Federal Bureau of Investigation infiltrated, spied on, and harassed progressive and radical organizations and individuals across the country.
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Culture

Gerald Horne’s new book ‘White Supremacy Confronted’ relates apartheid to Jim Crow
March 26, 2020 By Tony Pecinovsky
The scale of "White Supremacy Confronted," though focused on the U.S. and South Africa, is global.
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Culture

‘The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination’
January 24, 2020 By Tony Pecinovsky
Oppressed and exploited peoples seek allies where they can, domestically and internationally.
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Culture

How Soviet books brought literacy and socialist culture to the Third World
January 16, 2020 By Tony Pecinovsky
For millions of young readers in the Third World, Soviet and Eastern European literature was an inexpensive window into a world largely beyond reach.
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Politics

Review: “To The Promised Land,” King’s fight for economic justice
January 13, 2020 By Tony Pecinovsky
As a short book, Honey’s To The Promised Land packs quite a punch.
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CP100

‘Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice’: A welcome new book
October 28, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky
The story of Chicano Communists is a quintessential American one and absolutely relevant to our understanding of who we are as a nation.
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Culture

“Intersectional before it was cool”: The women’s movement during 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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