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He went on to University College, Colombo (which later became Colombo University), won an exhibition to the University of London and went to Britain in 1945. He sailed on board a troopship; when the news of Churchill's defeat at the general election came through, all the soldiers on board threw their caps in the air and cheered, a fact which greatly encouraged him.

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 joined the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). He was 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 (UK) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_%28UK%29]. Through the group he got to know Max Shachtman.