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Jim Higgins (British politician)

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By the 1960s, Higgins was a POEU branch secretary and was elected to the union's national executive, but he gave up his union work to become IS's full-time national secretary in the early 1970s. In a burst of internal quarrels in the period 1973-76 he left the organisation. He was a founder member
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British revolutionary socialist and leading member of the International Socialists
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have been deposited with Senate House Library, University of London.
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Marxists' Internet Archive, articles by Jim Higgins
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Harrow, London
Telecommunications engineer
Journalist
General Post Office
Young Communist League
International Socialists
Workers League
Post Office Engineering Union
revolutionary socialist
International Socialists
Harrow, London
Young Communist League
Post Office
National Service
Communist Party of Great Britain
Post Office Engineering Union
Nikita Khrushchev
secret speech
Soviet invasion of Hungary
Trotskyist
Socialist Labour League
Socialist Review Group
International Socialists
Workers League
design
Al Richardson
Socialist Worker


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