The group came to broader attention when the diarist in "The Times" in April 1977 reported some of the group's material as an amusing aside. The Workers' Institute claimed affiliation to the Communist Party of China. A document by the group issued in 1977 argued that the British population was moving in a "revolutionary direction". The document asserted that the opening of the group’s headquarters "has taken the British fascist state by storm". Balakrishnan prophesied that the PLA would have launched a revolutionary invasion of Britain by 1980.