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{{Short description|British political activist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix =
|birthname = Christopher Mark Nineham
|honorific-suffix =
|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 (trade unionist)|Andrew Murray]]<br>[[Jeremy Corbyn]]<br>[[Murad Qureshi]]
|term_start = 21 September 2001
|term_end =
|predecessor = [[Stop the War Coalition#Formation|''Office established'']]
|successor =
}}
'''Christopher Mark Nineham''' is a British political activist, writer 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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> He was one of the main organisers of the [[15 February 2003 anti-war protests|15 February 2003 anti-war protest]] against the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|invasion of Iraq]].
[[Category:Trotskyists|Nineham, Chris]]▼
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Chris Nineham was born in London in October 1962. His father was Professor [[Dennis Nineham]], who taught theology at London, Cambridge and Bristol universities and was Warden of Keble College Oxford for ten years. He went to [[Westminster School]] and studied at the London School of Economics and Middlesex Polytechnic.<ref name="Kennedy">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
He briefly attended [[Clare College, Cambridge]] in 1981. He was drummer for the indie pop band [[The June Brides]] in 1983.
==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 (Britain)|Socialist Workers' Party]] for many years until he resigned in 2010.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
Nineham is deputy leader of the [[Stop the War Coalition]].<ref name="Kennedy"/> He has written on the anti-war movement and the anti-capitalist movement as well as on the media, modernism and cultural theory,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.counterfire.org/authors/5 |title=Author Chris Nineham |website=Counterfire.org |accessdate=2016-10-17}}</ref> and is the author of ''The People Versus Tony Blair''<ref>{{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 }}</ref> and ''Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of [[Georg Lukács]]''.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
Nineham is the Chief Steward for many of London's demonstrations against the [[Gaza war]] and the British government's involvement, including the 4th [[List of protests in the United Kingdom|largest protest demonstration in UK history]] on Saturday 11 November 2023.<ref>{{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]]}}</ref>
==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=The British State: A Warning |publisher=John Hunt Publishing|year=2019|isbn=978-1789043297}}
* {{Cite book|last=Nineham|first=Chris|title=Radical Chains: Why Class Matters |publisher=John Hunt Publishing|year=2023|isbn=978-1789049350}}
==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==
{{Reflist}}
==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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