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

Opinion

Banking on consumer debt
November 25, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
As the economic crisis continues to worsen and the official national unemployment rate inches well over 10 percent, more and more Americans are faced with more and more debt.
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U.S.

Ordering executive pay cuts: It’s about time!
October 22, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
The Treasury Department's expected plan to cut executive pay by up to 90 percent – at the seven companies that received the most in bailout money – is not only good news.
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Opinion

A Stranger to Myself: Losing oneself in war
October 14, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
As a German soldier on the frontlines of Hitler’s war machine, Willy Peter Reese endured and inflicted the unimaginable, saw the horrible and came face-to-face with the life and death realities of war.
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Labor

Workers charge Red Cross with unfair labor practices
October 9, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
ST. LOUIS – “I’ve worked 96 hours in a single week,” Jason Withey, a Red Cross driver from Buffalo, N.Y., told the World here on Oct. 8. “I could live better working at Wal-Mart.”
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U.S.

St. Louis activists stage die-in at Wellpoint
October 7, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
Health care protestors stage die-in at corporate crime scene.
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U.S.

Rally slams Wellpoint for ‘indefensible’ health care role
September 24, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
ST. LOUIS – “We all know people without health care. These aren’t just statistics. These are people, our neighbors, our friends, our families,” Pastor Mary Albert told over 300 health care reform activists here as they...
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Labor

Labor Day, Abe Lincoln and the EFCA
September 13, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
I’ve been walking in the Labor Day parade here in St. Louis since I can remember. I come from a union family and as a union member and activist, I’ve always felt compelled to spend this...
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U.S.

Missouri state capital rallies for health care reform
September 3, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – “I was too expensive, so they got rid of me,” Robert Green told hundreds of rural Missourians who rallied for health care reform here on the Capital steps September 2.
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