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 tea party gang and the “F” word
October 14, 2013 By Jarvis Tyner
The tea party is not your typical conservative group. They are as close to fascist as you can get away with today.
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Opinion

Taking the long view on fight for freedom
September 4, 2013 By Jarvis Tyner
As one of 250,000 who attended the 1963 "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," I had to come to Washington, Aug. 24, to be a part of the 50th anniversary march.
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Opinion

New York voters want a mayor with a heart
July 23, 2013 By Jarvis Tyner And Estevan Bassett-Nembhard
The priority of a billionaire mayor is to protect the interest of billionaires. That is why the people of New York City want a mayor who will move the city in another direction.
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Labor

The Dream lives on, but we must fight for it
June 27, 2013 By Jarvis Tyner
In a five-to-four decision the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the formula in Section 4 of the 1965 Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional.
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Opinion

Austerity-to-prosperity lie based on “bogus math”
May 6, 2013 By Jarvis Tyner
Republicans are committed to the belief that the only way out of the economic crisis is through austerity for the people. Clearly many Democrats as well buy into this profits-before-people policy.
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Arts

“Free Angela” – what you do when wolves come after you
April 12, 2013 By Jarvis Tyner
"Free Angela and all Political Prisoners," written and directed by Shola Lynch, brilliantly tells the story about the history-making struggle, to win Davis' freedom.
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U.S.

Thousands in Harlem rally against gun violence
March 27, 2013 By Jarvis Tyner
People at the rally. like most New Yorkers, seemed to agree that good jobs and good quality education for all are necessary steps to ending gun violence on the streets.
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U.S.

A mother fights gun violence
March 18, 2013 By Jarvis Tyner
Janice gives much of her time trying to make life better for working people and people of color in her community, in her union and in the world.
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