Domestic slavery case

[Bryn]

The Brixton slavery case would be worrying enough in itself but I now discover that suspicions I had yesterday re. the identity of the alleged slavers have today been confirmed. I knew the male somewhat in the early '70s. He was expelled from what later became known as the RCPB(M-L). I can't immediately recall the precise reasons given for the expulsions at the time (the were given in a 'press release), but I do recall finding him and his associates decidedly strange in their credo and demeanor. My heart goes out to those held in ideological bondage, two of whom I may also have been acquainted with back then.




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[amateur51]

"A married couple suspected of holding three women as slaves for more than 30 years are former Maoist activists Aravindan Balakrishnan and his wife Chanda, the BBC understands."

"According to Marxist archives they were leading figures at the Mao Zedong Memorial Centre based in Acre Lane, Brixton, south London, in the 1970s."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25084830

[Bryn]

"A married couple suspected of holding three women as slaves for more than 30 years are former Maoist activists Aravindan Balakrishnan and his wife Chanda, the BBC understands."

"According to Marxist archives they were leading figures at the Mao Zedong Memorial Centre based in Acre Lane, Brixton, south London, in the 1970s."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25084830

Yes, that Mao portrait festooned corner shop was set up some time after the expulsions. From what I remember 'Bala' had an engineering degree of some sort.

[Serial_Apologist]

http://www.marxists.org/history/erol/uk.hightide/closure.htm

I remember Tariq Ali telling me that this lot, or another, very similar, held the British state to be fascist, and accordingly carried long sticks on demos with which to physically attack the police, resulting in 90% of their members being continuously in jail; "Such a waste, such a tragedy" he added without apparent irony. I also remember a leaflet being thrust into my hand, proclaiming the establishment of the first true British soviet, in Brixton, and the young woman berating me for having betrayed the working class in 1940, or some such date; to which I replied that I could not by any stretch of the imagination be so accused, not having been even a thought in my father's left testical in 1940.

Mind you, the account given in the above link does have a ring of truth about it...

[Bryn]

When I get home from work I will PM you a somewhat better informed explanation for what were actually 2x2s with red flags attached.

[Serial_Apologist]

When I get home from work I will PM you a somewhat better informed explanation for what were actually 2x2s with red flags attached.

I look forward to it! <smiley>