WHO IS PROFESSOR CHRIS KNIGHT?
CHRIS Knight was the eldest of five children of a father who gave up his career as a school teacher to follow his romantic ideal and become a self-sufficient farmer in Somerset and then Devon. The farms failed and the family frequently moved around, so much so that Chris attended 13 primary schools and three grammar schools. He did A-levels in maths, physics and chemistry but decided to pursue an arts degree, with the only option being Russian literature at Sussex University in 1961. Barred from spending his third year in Moscow because of the Cold War, he went to Paris and lived with “Russian emigrés”. He completed a masters degree, became interested in anthropology and more involved in “revolutionary politics”. As a student he spent a week in Norwich Prison for occupying an American airbase and worked as a Post Office van driver and a teacher at a south London comprehensive. By the early 1970s he was a member of the Revolutionary Community Party and claims he organised a picket of an
