Jim Higgins: More Years for the Locust - The Origins of the SWP
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First published by the IS Group (90s forerunners of the AMM & Unkant) in 1997, More Years for the Locust is a history of the origins of the SWP written by Jim Higgins, a leading member of the Socialist Review Group and International Socialists (forerunners of the SWP), who directed the group's industrial work for many years as well as working on Socialist Worker, before forming the IS Opposition which opposed the group's turn away from its rank and file strategy in the trade unions.
Published with a new Foreword by John Game
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