Chris Nineham
{{Short description|British political activist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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|birthname = Christopher Mark Nineham
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|image = Chris Nineham.jpg
|caption = Chris Nineham at the No More War event in Parliament Square, 2014.
|office = Deputy Chair of the Stop the War Coalition
|president = Tony Benn
|vicepresident = Lindsey German
|1blankname = {{nowrap|Chairman}}
|1namedata = Andrew Murray
Jeremy Corbyn
Murad Qureshi
|term_start = 21 September 2001
|term_end =
|predecessor = Office established
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}}
Christopher Mark Nineham (born June 1962) is a British political activist and founder member of the Stop the War Coalition serving as National Officer and Deputy Chair of the Stop the War Coalition in the UK. He served under Jeremy Corbyn from 2011 to 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.stopwar.org.uk/officers |title=Officers & Steering Committee - Stop the War Coalition |accessdate=2015-07-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901014153/http://www.stopwar.org.uk/officers |archivedate=1 September 2013 }} He was one of the main organisers of the 15 February 2003 anti-war protest against the invasion of Iraq.
Early life
Christopher Mark Nineham was born in June 1962. His father was the Reverend Professor Dennis Nineham, the former warden of Keble College, University of Oxford. He was educated as a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School.{{cite news|last=Kennedy|first=Dominic|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/stop-the-war-chief-accued-of-hypocrisy-9tnxm7tsf|title=Stop the War chief accused of hypocrisy|work=The Times|date=15 October 2016|access-date=15 October 2016}} {{subscription required}}{{cite news|last=Norman|first=Matthew|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/feb/06/2|title=Diary|work=The Guardian|date=6 February 2002|accessdate=12 October 2016}}
He briefly attended Clare College, Cambridge in 1981.
Activism
He was a leading member of Globalise Resistance, the anti-globalisation network that protested in Genoa and elsewhere and he played a role in the European and World Social Forums. He was a member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers' Party for many years until he resigned in 2010.{{cite news |last1=Manson |first1=Peter |title=Left Platform throws in the towel – Weekly Worker |url=https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/805/left-platform-throws-in-the-towel/ |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=Weekly Worker |date=18 February 2010}}
Nineham is deputy leader of the Stop the War Coalition. He has written on the anti-war movement and the anti-capitalist movement as well as on the media, modernism and cultural theory,{{cite web|url=http://www.counterfire.org/authors/5 |title=Author Chris Nineham |website=Counterfire.org |accessdate=2016-10-17}} and is the author of The People Versus Tony Blair{{cite web |url=http://www.zero-books.net/books/people-tony-blair |title=People v. Tony Blair, The || Zero Books || Book Info |publisher=Zero Books |date=2013-05-31 |accessdate=2016-10-17 |archive-date=24 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724161728/http://www.zero-books.net/books/people-tony-blair |url-status=dead }} and Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukács.{{cite web|url=http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/theory/37-theory/6368-capitalism-and-class-consciousness-the-ideas-of-georg-lukacs |title=Capitalism and Class Consciousness: The Ideas of Georg Lukács |website=Counterfire.org |accessdate=2016-10-17}}
Nineham is the Chief Steward for many of London's demonstrations against the Gaza war and the British government's involvement, including the 4th largest protest demonstration in UK history on Saturday 11 November 2023.{{Cite web |last=Holden |first=Michael |title=London police arrest over 120 as pro-Palestinian rally draws counter-protests |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/huge-crowds-expected-london-pro-palestinian-rally-police-gear-trouble-2023-11-11/ |website=Reuters}}
Books
- {{Cite book|last=Nineham|first=Chris|title=Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukács|publisher=Counterfire|year=2010|isbn=978-1907899010}}
- {{Cite book|last=Nineham|first=Chris|title=People v. Tony Blair, The |publisher=John Hunt Publishing|year=2013|isbn=978-1780998169}}
- {{Cite book|last=Nineham|first=Chris|title=How the Establishment Lost Control |publisher=John Hunt Publishing|year=2017|isbn=978-1785356315}}
- {{Cite book|last=Nineham|first=Chris|title=British State, The |publisher=John Hunt Publishing|year=2019|isbn=978-1789043297}}
Selected articles
- [http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj71/williams.htm "Raymond Williams"] (Socialist Review, 1996)
- [http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj91/nineham.htm "Anticapitalism: An idea whose time has come"] (Socialist Review, 2001)
- [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/14/blairism-britain-iraq-war-tony-blair "Don't be nostalgic about Tony Blair"] (The Guardian, 2014)
References
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External links
- [https://www.counterfire.org/author/chris-nineham/ Nineham's articles on Counterfire]
- [https://www.stopwar.org.uk/ Stop the War Coalition]
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Category:British anti–Iraq War activists
Category:Socialist Workers Party (UK) members
Category:People educated at Westminster School, London
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