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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 acquired a Singapore passport.  

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.

In 1977, the Singaporean authorities claimed that Balakrishnan and others, many of them former Singaporean students he had associated with in London, were plotting to overthrow Lee Kuan Yew, President of Singapore. So

In 1977, the Singaporean authorities claimed that Balakrishnan and others, many of them former Singaporean students he had associated with in London, were plotting to overthrow Lee Kuan Yew, President of Singapore. So

Balakrishnan was stripped of his citizenship.

Balakrishnan was stripped of his citizenship of Singapore but never became a British citizen either. He remained as an illegal immigrant.

His south London commune started in the Mao-Tse-Tung Memorial Centre in Brixton, East London in 1976, under the title Workers' Institute of Marxism–Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.

His south London commune started in the Mao-Tse-Tung Memorial Centre in Brixton, East London in 1976, under the title Workers' Institute of Marxism–Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.