# Chris Nineham > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chris_Nineham > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chris_Nineham.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Nineham > Source revision: 1350646593 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Stop_the_War_Coalition) | president = [Tony Benn](/source/Tony_Benn) | vice_president = [Lindsey German](/source/Lindsey_German) | 1blankname = {{nowrap|[Chairman](/source/Chairman)}} | 1namedata = [Andrew Murray](/source/Andrew_Murray_(trade_unionist))
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[Murad Qureshi](/source/Murad_Qureshi) | term_start = 21 September 2001 | term_end = | predecessor = [''Office established''](/source/Stop_the_War_Coalition) | successor = }} '''Chris Nineham''' is a British political activist, writer and founder member of the [Stop the War Coalition](/source/Stop_the_War_Coalition), serving as one of its National Officers and its Vice Chair. He served under [Jeremy Corbyn](/source/Jeremy_Corbyn) from 2011 to 2015.{{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 }} He was one of the main organisers of the [15 February 2003 anti-war protest](/source/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests) against the [invasion of Iraq](/source/2003_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](/source/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](/source/Westminster_School) and studied at the London School of Economics and Middlesex Polytechnic.{{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](/source/The_Times)|date=15 October 2016|access-date=15 October 2016}} {{subscription required}}{{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}} He obtained a doctorate from the University of Westminster in 2014. He was drummer for the indie pop band [The June Brides](/source/The_June_Brides) in 1983. ==Activism== He was a leading member of [Globalise Resistance](/source/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](/source/Socialist_Workers_Party_(Britain)) for many years until he resigned in 2010.{{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}} Nineham has written on the anti-war movement and the anti-capitalist movement as well as on the media, modernism and cultural theory,{{cite web|url=http://www.counterfire.org/authors/5 |title=Author Chris Nineham |website=Counterfire.org |accessdate=2016-10-17}} and is the author of ''The People Versus Tony Blair'',{{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 }} ''Capitalism and Class Consciousness: The Ideas of [Georg Lukács](/source/Georg_Luk%C3%A1cs)''.{{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}} and most recently ''Radical Chains: Why Class Matters''. Nineham has been Chief Steward for many of London's demonstrations against the [Gaza war](/source/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.[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 ==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] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Nineham, Chris}} Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:British anti–Iraq War activists Category:British Trotskyists Category:Socialist Workers Party (UK) members Category:People educated at Westminster School, London {{UK-activist-stub}} {{England-writer-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Chris Nineham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Nineham) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Nineham?action=history)). 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