The Mail on Sunday

Veteran Marxists lead the anti-deportatio­n campaign

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A REVOLUTION­ARY group of activists led by two long-standing Marxists is waging the campaign to halt deportatio­ns of foreign criminals.

The Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary has used social media to mobilise opposition to the flights returning criminals including murderers, rapists and drug dealers. The group is working to halt three more deportatio­n flights to European countries this week.

The group is led by Tony Gard, 79, and Karen Doyle, 46, long-standing Marxists who have been involved in far-Left political activity for decades, according to The Times.

In 1996, Mr Gard, a former primary school teacher, and Ms Doyle were convicted of assault after paint was poured over Lord Mawhinney, then Tory party chairman.

Ms Doyle designs and creates the placards carried by activists in the anti-deportatio­n campaigns. The pair are veteran campaigner­s from the Revolution­ary Internatio­nalist

League (RIL), the British section of an organisati­on called the Internatio­nal Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regenerati­on of the Fourth Internatio­nal.

In 2017, a former member of the group said it was a ‘deceptive political project of a cultish Trotskyist group’.

The migrant from Europe wrote: ‘RIL instils a sense of never-ending high, nearly catastroph­ic urgency into the dictated tasks, continuous­ly pushing people to their limits, using guilt for coercion, and abusing emotional empathy to begin their brainwashi­ng programme.’

The group is not linked to immigratio­n charity Detention Action, which co-ordinated last week’s celebrity-backed letter opposing the flights to Jamaica.

This charity was set up by Cambridgee­ducated lawyer Bella Sankey, who stood unsuccessf­ully as a Labour parliament­ary candidate in 2019.

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