Jarvis Tyner

Jarvis Tyner is former 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 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. Tyner has been an active public spokesperson against racism, imperialism and war. He has written numerous articles and pamphlets and appeared on the media, campuses and in other public venues advocating for peace, equality and the socialist alternative.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Jarvis Tyner

U.S.

The Republican campaign to suppress the Black vote
September 24, 2004 By Jarvis Tyner
The African American people from slavery to today have had to wage a hard, bitter and bloody struggle for the right to vote. The right to vote, therefore, is sacred; it is a basic part of...
Read more
PrintEditions

The real Ronald Reagan
June 18, 2004 By Jarvis Tyner
The Bush administration is using Ronald Reagan’s death to boost Bush’s failing campaign. They are eulogizing Reagan because they are hoping to win back support for George W. Bush and the right-wing Republican agenda.
Read more
Peace

I remember Winnie
May 7, 2004 By Jarvis Tyner
Henry Winston, the former national chairman of the Communist Party USA, was a great leader of our party. I had the honor and privilege of working with him for over 30 years. He was a wonderful...
Read more
Peace

A better world is possible: The struggle for socialism and democracy
February 13, 2004 By Jarvis Tyner
The best hopes and dreams of the U.S. people do not lie with U.S. big corporations or the extreme right-wing movements they sponsor. In fact, the ultimate interest of the majority of our people is in...
Read more
Peace

Keep the pressure on for peace and justice
October 24, 2003 By Jarvis Tyner
Opinion Because of the growing opposition to the Iraq war, the state of the U.S. economy and deep concerns about new threats to democratic rights, things are moving to the left.
Read more
U.S.

The legacy of Benjamin J. Davis
September 5, 2003 By Jarvis Tyner

Read more
PrintEditions

Gus Hall, Communist Party leader, remembered
October 24, 2002 By Sam Webb And Jarvis Tyner
Gus Hall former national chairman of the Communist Party, was interred at Forest Home Cemetery (formerly Waldheim Cemetery), near Chicago, Sept. 20. Gus and Elizabeth’s children, Barbara Conway and Arvo Hall, party leaders and friends attended...
Read more