# Jimmy Deane
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{{Short description|British Trotskyist}}
{{similar names|James Deane (disambiguation){{!}}James Deane}}
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'''Jimmy Deane''' (31 January 1921 – 21 August 2002) was a British [Trotskyist](/source/Trotskyist) who played a significant role in building the [Revolutionary Socialist League](/source/Revolutionary_Socialist_League_(UK%2C_1957)). Along with [Jock Haston](/source/Jock_Haston) and [Ted Grant](/source/Ted_Grant), he played a role during the Second World War in the [Revolutionary Communist Party](/source/Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK%2C_1944)), the British section of the [Fourth International](/source/Fourth_International).
==Early years==
Jimmy Deane was born in [Liverpool](/source/Liverpool) to a blacksmith, Gus Deane, and his wife, Gertie, a trained nurse.[[http://revolutionaryhistory.co.uk/allobits/jimmy-deane.html Jimmy Deane (1921-2002)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810031208/http://www.revolutionaryhistory.co.uk/allobits/jimmy-deane.html |date=10 August 2011 }} – Accessed 7/7/2010] Deane came from a long line of trade unionists in the Labour movement in Merseyside – Deane's maternal grandfather Charles Carrick was elected president of the Liverpool Trades Council in 1905, served for fourteen years as one of Labour's first councillors, and was an organiser for the Marxist [Social Democratic Federation](/source/Social_Democratic_Federation).[Crick, Michael, ''The March of Militant'', p36] Carrick, like many trade unionists at that time, remained active within the [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) when the Social Democratic Federation left. Deane's mother and brothers were all in the Trotskyist movement[Taaffe, Peter, ''Liverpool: A city that dared to fight'', p33, p36, p41] and were members of the [Walton Constituency](/source/Liverpool_Walton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) Labour Party in the 1950s and 1960s. The origins of Trotskyism to which the Deanes were attracted can be traced to Albert Houghton, a founding member of the Communist Party in Merseyside who had drawn Trotskyist conclusions and fought the Stalinists in Merseyside who later became leading Labour figures.['The War and the International', Bornstein and Richardson, p5. Bessie Braddock was a former Communist Party member who became president of the Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party in 1945 and was MP for [Liverpool Exchange](/source/Liverpool%2C_Exchange). Liverpool Echo special edition 17 November 1987]
Joining the Labour Party in 1937, he was later that year won over to Trotskyism and joined the [Militant Group](/source/Militant_Group).[[http://www.marxist.com/jimmy-deane-proletarian-revolutionary.htm Jimmy Deane: Proletarian revolutionary, heart and soul]- Accessed 7/7/2010] In January 1944 he was trained as a miner, due to wartime legislation, and worked at Nook Pit, [Tyldesley](/source/Tyldesley) before he was invalided out of work at the end of the year.[[http://www.marxist.com/the-theoretical-origins-of-the-degeneration-of-the-fourth-interview-with-ted-grant.htm The theoretical origins of the degeneration of the Fourth – Interview with Ted Grant] – Accessed 7/7/2010] He stayed in Paris for a further 18 months as the British representative on the International Executive Committee.[[http://socialistworld.net/doc/333 Obituary: Jimmy Deane – pioneer of Trotskyism] – Accessed 7//7/2010] At the end of his life he declared his support for the [Socialist Appeal](/source/Socialist_Appeal_(UK%2C_1992)) tendency,[[http://www.marxist.com/letter-from-jimmy-deane.htm ''Socialist Appeal'']] and emphasised that "A Marxist tendency must combat any traces of [ultra-leftism](/source/ultra-leftism) that arise out of impatience". Jimmy Deane died of [pneumonia](/source/pneumonia) alone on 21 August 2002 at the Rosebank Nursing Home in [Liverpool](/source/Liverpool).