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

Funding loyalty: The economics of the Soviet Communist Party
June 19, 2017 By Tony Pecinovsky
New book details the large-scale financial-political enterprise that was the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Culture

A “people’s history” that is less than inspiring!
May 8, 2017 By Tony Pecinovsky
Zinn’s People’s History is that it served to amplify the voice of the common person, not great leaders. Faulkner’s book goes in the other direction.
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Politics

Sen. McCaskill demonstrates the limits of neo-liberal centrism
April 27, 2017 By Tony Pecinovsky
Claire McCaskill demonstrated the limitations of neo-liberal political centrism.
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Culture

Marx, psychiatry, and national liberation come together in Fanon bio
April 5, 2017 By Tony Pecinovsky
To ‘New Leftists’, few authors and revolutionaries loom as large as Frantz Fanon. His most well-known book, The Wretched of the Earth, is a mainstay of left literature.
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Opinion

How do you fight propaganda? Taking on information silos and engaging reaction
February 14, 2017 By Tony Pecinovsky
The dramatic growth of news outlets due to technology does NOT necessarily equate to a better grasp of reality, to a more informed and educated populace, free from racism or hate.
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Opinion

Soviet socialism, ‘real politik’ and the long ascendency of the right-wing
January 26, 2017 By Tony Pecinovsky
One hundred years after the birth of the Soviet Union, the question of socialism rises once again to the front burner.
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Culture

James and Esther Cooper Jackson, African American activists in a joint biography
December 12, 2016 By Tony Pecinovsky
James and Esther Cooper Jackson were mainstays of the struggle for African American equality for decades. Sara Rzeszutek Haviland tells the story of their life together.
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Culture

For Southern slave masters, preserving bondage was a global cause
December 2, 2016 By Tony Pecinovsky
Matthew Karp’s book, This Vast Southern Empire, shows that the effort to preserve slavery was not just a national, but rather an international affair.
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