Jimmy Deane - During The Second World War

During The Second World War

Due to serving an apprenticeship at Camel Lairds as an electrical engineer, he was not called up during the second world war, and became a shop steward. In January 1944 he was trained as a miner, due to wartime legislation, and worked at Nook Pit, Tyldesley before he was invalided out of work at the end of the year.

For most of 1945, Jimmy Deane became a full-time worker for the newly formed Revolutionary Communist Party as its London Industrial Organiser and joined the party's central committee and editorial board of the Socialist Appeal, the party's journal.

In 1946 Deane was the British delegate to the International Conference of the Fourth International alongside Jock Haston. He stayed in Paris for a further 18 months as the British representative on the Internation Executive Committee.