Revolutionary Communist Party
At University College, London, he studied law. There he met his future wife, Jeanne Hoban - a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) whom he converted to Trotskyism - and Stan Newens, who was later to become a Labour & Co-op MP. They joined the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), in which they were associated with the group around Tony Cliff, the so-called 'State-Caps' after their characterisation of the USSR as 'State-Capitalist'. The group later became the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Through the group he got to know Max Shachtman,becoming familiar with his theory of 'bureaucratic revolution'. He was also familiar with Jock Haston and Ted Grant. Within the RCP he went by the Pseudonym 'Anil Kumaran'.
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