Christopher Mark Nineham (born June 1962) is a British political activist and founder member of the

Stop the War Coalition The Stop the War Coalition (StWC), informally known simply as Stop the War, is a British group established on 21 September 2001, shortly after the September 11 attacks, to campaign against what it believes are unjust wars. The Coalition has c ...

serving as National Officer and Deputy Chair of the

in the UK. He served under

Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020. On the pol ...

from 2011 to 2015. He was one of the main organisers of the

15 February 2003 anti-war protest On 15 February 2003, a coordinated day of protests was held across the world in which people in more than 600 cities expressed opposition to the imminent Iraq War. It was part of a series of protests and political events that had begun in 2002 a ...

against the

invasion of Iraq The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq and the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 ...

Early life

Christopher Mark Nineham was born in June 1962. His father was the Reverend Professor

Dennis Nineham Dennis Eric Nineham (27 September 1921 – 9 May 2016) was a British theologian and academic, who served as Warden of Keble College, Oxford, from 1969 to 1979, as well as holding chairs in theology at the universities of London, Cambridge, an ...

, the former warden of

Keble College Keble College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the University Museum and the University Parks. The college is bordered to the north by Keble Road, to t ...

, University of Oxford. He was educated at

Westminster School Westminster School is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in Westminster, London, England, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey. It derives from a charity school founded by Westminster Benedictines before the 1066 Norman Conquest, as d ...

. He briefly attended

Clare College, Cambridge Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Iris ...

in 1981.

Activism

He was a leading member of

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, 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. Nineham is deputy leader of the

. He has written on the anti-war movement and the anti-capitalist movement as well as on the media, modernism and cultural theory, and is the author of ''The People Versus Tony Blair'' and ''Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of

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''.

Books

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Selected articles

"Raymond Williams"
(''Socialist Review'', 1996)

(''Socialist Review'', 2001)
"Don't be nostalgic about Tony Blair"
(''The Guardian'', 2014)

References

External links

Counterfire

Stop the War Coalition
1962 births Living people British anti–Iraq War activists British Trotskyists Socialist Workers Party (UK) members People educated at Westminster School, London {{England-bio-stub