In 1922, Tom and Amy were detained on Deer Island and threatened with deportation back to the United Kingdom for their communist activism. While at the camp, they formed a prisoners' soviet. They took their case to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and lost; they considered further appealing to the United States Supreme Court, but ultimately decided against this course of action, and were deported on 11 April 1922.[1][2]
Back in the UK, Tom published Americanism: A World Menace,[3] which criticised the country for its anti-communism, Fordism, and religious influence in politics.[4] He joined both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. In 1926, he became the secretary of the Greater London Left-Wing Movement, and then the founding secretary of its national counterpart, the National Left-Wing Movement. However, at the end of the year, he resigned from the movement, objecting to the co-option of Sunday Worker representatives onto its governing body. The CPGB argued that Colyer had been ineffective and had failed to develop the national movement; Colyer resigned from the CPGB, devoting his time to the Labour Party.[1]
The Worker's Passport : a Study of the Legal Restrictions on Migrant Workers – Prepared for the Labour Defence Council London: Labour Research Department, 1928
An Outline of Economics: Originally written by William McLaine and published in 1921, this was substantially rewritten by Colyer in 1932 with further revisions in 1949.[8]
An Outline History of Unemployment, London: N. C. L. C., 1936.
References
^ abcdParker, Lawrence (2018). Communists and Labour: The National Left-Wing Movement 1925-1929. Lulu. ISBN978-0244091873.
^ abMoloney, Deidre (2012). National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882. University of North Carolina Press. p. 180. ISBN978-0807882610.
^Howard, Thomas Albert (2011). God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 116. ISBN978-0199565511.
^"Woolwich nominations". Manchester Guardian. 2 November 1943.
^"Woolwich seat". Manchester Guardian. 11 November 1943.