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 that campaigns against the United Kingdom's involvement in military conflicts. It was established on 21 September 2001 to campaign against the impe ...

serving as National Officer and Deputy Chair of the

in the UK. He served under

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

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against the

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Early life

Christopher Mark Nineham was born in June 1962. His father was the Reverend Professor Dennis Nineham, the former warden of

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, University of Oxford. He was educated as a

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. He briefly attended

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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. 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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''. Nineham is the Chief Steward for many of London's demonstrations against the

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and the British government's involvement, including the 4th largest protest demonstration in UK history on Saturday 11 November 2023.

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

Nineham's articles on 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