Chris 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.

Chris Nineham
Chris Nineham at the No More War event in Parliament Square, 2014.
Deputy Chair of the Stop the War Coalition
Incumbent
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

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.^[2][3]

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.^[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]

Books

• Nineham, Chris (2010). Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukács. Counterfire. ISBN 978-1907899010.
• Nineham, Chris (2013). People v. Tony Blair, The. John Hunt Publishing. ISBN 978-1780998169.
• Nineham, Chris (2017). How the Establishment Lost Control. John Hunt Publishing. ISBN 978-1785356315.
• Nineham, Chris (2019). British State, The. John Hunt Publishing. ISBN 978-1789043297.

Selected articles

• "Raymond Williams" (Socialist Review, 1996)
• "Anticapitalism: An idea whose time has come" (Socialist Review, 2001)
• "Don't be nostalgic about Tony Blair" (The Guardian, 2014)