[Introduction to Building the Revolutionary Party: Jim Percy Selected Writings 1980-87 (Resistance Books: Chippendale, 2008)]
This is the second volume of writings and speeches by Jim Percy, one of the founders of the Democratic Socialist Perspective and its longtime central leader until his death in 1992. These seven items reports given by Jim to conferences and leadership gatherings of the DSP (or Socialist Workers Party as it was known in this period) span the years 1980 to 1987.