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.

 

Join the Communist Party at Left Forum this weekend

Join the Communist Party at Left Forum this weekend

Thousands of people will be attending Left Forum 2012 this wkend in New York City. If you are attending, we invite you to participate one the many panels and workshops...

BY:Jarvis Tyner| March 16, 2012
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This is an FDR/MLK moment

This is an FDR/MLK moment

CPUSA Executive Vice Chair Jarvis Tyner explains the connections between fighting racism, winning working-class victories and the 2012 elections.

BY:Jarvis Tyner| December 21, 2011
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The challenge before us

The challenge before us

The Communist Party is growing. What are the factors that have led to this growth and the political, organizational responses needed to continue it.

BY:Jarvis Tyner| May 10, 2011
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Young communist education tour takes country by storm

Young communist education tour takes country by storm

Help make it possible for the "Little Red School Bus" to travel through the United States.

BY:Jarvis Tyner| March 31, 2011
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Death penalty, shot through with racism, cannot be fixed

Death penalty, shot through with racism, cannot be fixed

Former Justice John Paul Stevens say capital punishment is "shot through with racism, skewed toward conviction, infected with politics and tinged with hysteria." It's  past time to end the practice.

BY:Jarvis Tyner| December 21, 2010
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