Chris Nineham

Chris Nineham (born 1962) is a founder member and National Officer of the Stop the War Coalition in the UK.[1] He was one of the main organisers of the 15 February 2003 anti-war protest against the invasion on Iraq.

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.[2]

Nineham has written on the anti-war movement and the anti-capitalist movement as well as on the media, modernism and cultural theory,[3] and is the author of The People Versus Tony Blair[4] and Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukács.[5]

In 1985 Chris Nineham served as the drummer of indie pop band The June Brides.[6]

Selected articles

References

  1. ↑ http://www.stopwar.org.uk/officers
  2. ↑ Peter Manson "Left Platform throws in the towel", Weekly Worker, 18 February 2010
  3. ↑ http://www.counterfire.org/authors/5
  4. ↑ http://www.zero-books.net/books/people-tony-blair
  5. ↑ http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/theory/37-theory/6368-capitalism-and-class-consciousness-the-ideas-of-georg-lukacs
  6. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/june-brides-mn0000838299/biography

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