Chris Nineham | |
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![]() Chris Nineham at the No More War event in Parliament Square, 2014. | |
Deputy Chair of the Stop the War Coalition | |
Assumed office 21 September 2001 | |
President | Tony Benn |
Vice President | Lindsey German |
Chairman | Andrew Murray Jeremy Corbyn Murad Qureshi |
Preceded by | Office established |
Personal details | |
Born | Christopher Mark Nineham |
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. [1] He was one of the main organisers of the 15 February 2003 anti-war protest against the invasion of Iraq.
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. [2] [3]
He briefly attended Clare College,Cambridge in 1981.
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. [4]
Nineham is deputy leader of the Stop the War Coalition. [2] He has written on the anti-war movement and the anti-capitalist movement as well as on the media,modernism and cultural theory, [5] and is the author of The People Versus Tony Blair [6] and Capitalism and Class Consciousness:the ideas of Georg Lukács . [7]
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. [8]