{{Short description|British political activist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Use British English|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | 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 | vice_president = Lindsey German | 1blankname = {{nowrap|Chairman}} | 1namedata = Andrew Murray<br>Jeremy Corbyn<br>Murad Qureshi | term_start = 21 September 2001 | term_end = | predecessor = ''Office established'' | successor = }}
'''Chris Nineham''' is a British political activist, writer and founder member of the Stop the War Coalition, serving as one of its National Officers and its Vice Chair. 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 protest against the invasion of Iraq and the chief steward of the demonstration.
==Early life== 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 obtained a doctorate from the University of Westminster in 2014.
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 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 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> ''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> and most recently ''Radical Chains: Why Class Matters''.
Nineham has been Chief Steward for many of London's demonstrations against the Gaza war and the British government's involvement. He was arrested on 18 January 2025 and convicted on 1 April for breaches of the Public Order Act.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/01/prominent-uk-pro-palestine-activists-guilty-of-breaching-protest-conditions Prominent UK pro-Palestinian activists guilty of breaching protest conditions], The Guardian</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/ Chris Nineham's articles on Counterfire] * [https://www.stopwar.org.uk/ Stop the War Coalition]
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