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==Background==

==Background==

Balakrishnan was born in Kerala,[[India]] in 1940. When he was 10 his family moved to Malaya, where his father was a soldier. What he saw of the British suppression of Singapore during the 'Time of Emergency' between 1954 and 1960 convinced him that Britain was Fascist. He studied at the University of Singapore, where became a Communist and believed that he was in danger of imprisonment if this was known.  

Balakrishnan was born in Kerala, [[India]] in 1940. When he was 10 his family moved to Malaya, where his father was a soldier. What he saw of the British suppression of Singapore during the 'Time of Emergency' between 1954 and 1960 convinced him that Britain was Fascist. He studied at the University of Singapore, where became a Communist and believed that he was in danger of imprisonment if this was known.  

He emigrated to the UK in 1963 on a [[British Council]] scholarship to study at the notoriously Socialist-leaning [[London School of Economics]], where he became a follower of the Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung. He married his wife Chandra in 1971.

He emigrated to the UK in 1963 on a [[British Council]] scholarship to study at the notoriously Socialist-leaning [[London School of Economics]], where he became a follower of the Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung. He married his wife Chandra in 1971.