Jarvis Tyner is an American

United States

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 activist and the current Executive Vice Chair of the Communist Party USA

Communist Party USA

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. He is a resident of Manhattan

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, New York City

New York City

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. In 1972

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 and 1976

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, he ran for Vice President of the United States

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 of the CPUSA.

Biography

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 of America

Amalgamated Lithographers of America

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 and Teamsters

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, 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 a public spokesperson for the CPUSA, presenting its positions against racism

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, imperialism

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, and war

War

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. Tyner has also contributed to the CPUSA's Political Affairs Magazine

Political Affairs Magazine

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and its People's World. He currently resides in the Inwood section of Manhattan, New York City.

External links

• Ann Douglas, "A Tireless Fighter for Race, Class and Socialist Revolution," London: Morning Star
  The Morning Star
  The Morning Star is a left wing British daily tabloid newspaper with a focus on social and trade union issues. Articles and comment columns are contributed by writers from socialist, social democratic, green and religious perspectives....
  
  , October 11, 2006. Located at http://www.communist-party.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=142:a-tireless-fighter-for-race-class-and-socialist-revolution&catid=39:2006&Itemid=2. Retrieved September 4, 2009.

• Jarvis Tyner at NUT’s Race Advisory Committee http://www.billgreenshields.org.uk/Jarvis%20Tyner%20report.htm