Peckford Place, South London.

Home of the very loony left.

The Telegraph can’t believe its luck writes;

Aravindan Balakrishnan and his wife Chanda, who ran a Maoist collective in the 1970s, recruited mainly women who shared their far left ideology.

But once they joined they fell under the spell of the charismatic leaders, and found it hard to leave, according to experts. “They were a tiny, very tight-knit group clearly under the spell of their leader. Their membership was overwhelmingly overseas in origin.

“Most were foreign students who seemed to have difficulty adjusting to life in the UK. They refused to recognise the legitimacy of the state and state institutions and maintained a hostile attitude towards the establishment and towards the rest of the far-left in Britain at that time. Their ideology was profoundly detached from reality.”

The Daily Telegraph has learned that the couple arrested last week were well known to the police having set up a notorious Communist squat in 1974 and have both served prison sentences associated with their political activities.

Based in Brixton, south London, the couple set about recruiting women from other far left groups, encouraging them to engage in “revolutionary work”.

 

Slavery case: suspects named as former Maoist collective leaders

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Meanwhile…

.@DavQuinn Or what the Church did to the children and women left at their mercy in Industrial schools and Magdalene laundries.

— Gaffy Stewen (@MadDurdu) November 25, 2013

Thanks Steve Nolan