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3 unusual facts about Jimmy Deane


Jimmy Deane

After attempting to bring about an unsuccessful fusion between the RSL and the International Group as well as joint work with the International Socialists in a magazine Young Guard, Jimmy Deane suggested Peter Taaffe as his successor as General Secretary and editor of the soon to be launched Militant.

Along with Jock Haston and Ted Grant, he played a role during the second world war in the Revolutionary Communist Party, the British section of the Fourth International.

In 1946 Deane was the British delegate to the International Conference of the Fourth International alongside Jock Haston.


International Marxist Group

A unity conference in September 1964, brokered partly by Pierre Frank and Jimmy Deane, voted for unity but the fusion was not accepted: RSL member Peter Taaffe recalls that he "led a walk-out of the Liverpool delegation, with the majority in Liverpool in support".


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