Jim Higgins

Jim Higgins (2 December 1930 – 13 October 2002) was a British revolutionary socialist and a leading member of the International Socialists.

Biography Born into a working-class family in Harrow, London, Higgins joined the Young Communist League at 14. At the age of eighteen, he was apprenticed to the Post Office as a telecommunications engineer.

After National Service in the early 1950s, he became active in both the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Post Office Engineering Union (POEU). He left the Communist Party after Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 secret speech and the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Higgins instead joined the Trotskyist Socialist Labour League, soon leaving to join the Socialist Review Group which became the International Socialists (IS), and becoming the group's Secretary.

Selected publications Lenin (Socialist Worker pamphlet) April 1970 More Years for the Locust, IS Group, London, 1997