Counterfire’s Chris Nineham spoke to Danièle Obono about the election in France, the New Popular Front and resisting the far right
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Chris Nineham
Chris Nineham is a founder member of Stop the War and Counterfire, speaking regularly around the country on behalf of both. He is author of The People Versus Tony Blair and Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs.
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