Jarvis Tyner

 
 
Jarvis Tyner

Jarvis Tyner is executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA and a long-time member of the party's national board.. He was a founding member of the Black Radical Congress and served on its national coordinating committee for five years.

Tyner was born in the Mill Creek community of West Philadelphia in 1941 and graduated from West Philadelphia High School. He joined the Communist Party USA at the age of 20. After several years working in various industrial jobs in the Philadelphia area, where he was a member of the Amalgamated Lithographers and the Teamsters union, he moved to New York in 1967 to become the national chair of the DuBois Clubs of America, and later founding chair of the Young Workers Liberation League. He was the Communist Party USA candidate for vice president of the U.S. in 1972 and 1976, running with party leader Gus Hall.

As a leader of the CPUSA Tyner has been an active public spokesperson against racism, imperialism and war. He has written numerous articles and pamphlets and appears on the media, campuses and in other public venues advocating for peace, equality and the socialist alternative. He currently resides in the Inwood section of Manhattan, N.Y., is married and the father of four adult children and one grandchild.

 

Notes on the historic challenge of the 2022 midterm election

Notes on the historic challenge of the 2022 midterm election

The Trump-Republican attempt to destroy 100 years of hard-fought democratic gains must be defeated.

BY:Jarvis Tyner| November 4, 2022
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Black Lives Matter!

Black Lives Matter!

Until justice is done, the struggle will continue.

BY:Jarvis Tyner| June 18, 2020
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Leninism and the African American national question: A reply to Halabi

Leninism and the African American national question: A reply to Halabi

Can equality be achieved under capitalism?  The answer is that the struggle for equality will determine whether or not socialism is achieved.

BY:Joe Sims And Jarvis Tyner| June 5, 2019
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African Americans and the Communist Party

African Americans and the Communist Party

Why did African Americans join the Communist Party in large numbers and attract figures like Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansbury, Claudia Jones and Paul Robeson?

BY:Jarvis Tyner| May 12, 2018
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Defeat Trump, Defeat Racism

Defeat Trump, Defeat Racism

A defeat of Trump's GOP will open new doors of struggle. What do we have to lose with Trump? Everything.

BY:Jarvis Tyner| October 25, 2016
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