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Nina Temple
Nina Claire Temple (born 21 April 1956) is a British politician who was the last Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) from 1990 to 1991. A member of the Eurocommunist faction, she previously served as General Secretary of the Young Communist League from 1979 to 1983, where she supported social policies including advocacy for gay rights within the communist movement.
Temple was involved in the dissolution of the CPGB in November 1991 and the founding of its successor organisation, Democratic Left. Following her political career, she worked as a think-tank director, including positions at the New Politics Network and Social Market Foundation. After being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2000, she co-founded the choir Sing For Joy for people with chronic degenerative diseases in 2003. She is the sister of film director Julien Temple and aunt of actress Juno Temple.
Temple was born in Westminster, London, the daughter of Barbara J. (Rainnie) and Landon Roy Temple. Born into a communist family (her father ran Progressive Tours and was a Communist Party of Great Britain member), she joined the Young Communist League when she was 13, later protesting in London against the Vietnam War. She has a degree in materials science from Imperial College, London. She is the sister of film director Julien Temple and the aunt of actress Juno Temple.
Temple was supported by YCL General Secretary Tom Bell as his potential successor. During the late 1970s she was general secretary of the Young Communist League and became a prominent member of the Eurocommunist faction within the party. Under her leadership, the YCL embraced progressive social policies, including being the first communist youth organisation to push for recognition of gay rights within the Communist Party, which caused considerable debate within the party in 1976.
Temple's YCL also modernised its cultural approach, with a report to the League's 1979 Congress celebrating that their publication Challenge had "tuned into punk and reggae, unemployment and anti-racism, far ahead of the rest of the left and popular press". However, these changes contributed to the organisation's decline, and within a few years of significant structural and policy changes, the YCL was effectively dissolved in 1989.
She became a member of the CPGB executive in 1979, and then a member of the Political Committee in January 1982.
She was the Press and Publicity Officer of the CPGB from January 1983 until 1989, when she became the last general secretary of the party in January 1990, aged 33. She pledged to make the party "feminist and green, as well as democratically socialist."
In this role Temple became one of the leading proponents of the dissolution of the CPGB in November 1991, and the founding of its legal successor, the Democratic Left, proclaiming that "The internationalism of the 1990s will be as much informed by Greenpeace and Oxfam, as communism once was by Marx and Engels".
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Nina Temple
Nina Claire Temple (born 21 April 1956) is a British politician who was the last Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) from 1990 to 1991. A member of the Eurocommunist faction, she previously served as General Secretary of the Young Communist League from 1979 to 1983, where she supported social policies including advocacy for gay rights within the communist movement.
Temple was involved in the dissolution of the CPGB in November 1991 and the founding of its successor organisation, Democratic Left. Following her political career, she worked as a think-tank director, including positions at the New Politics Network and Social Market Foundation. After being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2000, she co-founded the choir Sing For Joy for people with chronic degenerative diseases in 2003. She is the sister of film director Julien Temple and aunt of actress Juno Temple.
Temple was born in Westminster, London, the daughter of Barbara J. (Rainnie) and Landon Roy Temple. Born into a communist family (her father ran Progressive Tours and was a Communist Party of Great Britain member), she joined the Young Communist League when she was 13, later protesting in London against the Vietnam War. She has a degree in materials science from Imperial College, London. She is the sister of film director Julien Temple and the aunt of actress Juno Temple.
Temple was supported by YCL General Secretary Tom Bell as his potential successor. During the late 1970s she was general secretary of the Young Communist League and became a prominent member of the Eurocommunist faction within the party. Under her leadership, the YCL embraced progressive social policies, including being the first communist youth organisation to push for recognition of gay rights within the Communist Party, which caused considerable debate within the party in 1976.
Temple's YCL also modernised its cultural approach, with a report to the League's 1979 Congress celebrating that their publication Challenge had "tuned into punk and reggae, unemployment and anti-racism, far ahead of the rest of the left and popular press". However, these changes contributed to the organisation's decline, and within a few years of significant structural and policy changes, the YCL was effectively dissolved in 1989.
She became a member of the CPGB executive in 1979, and then a member of the Political Committee in January 1982.
She was the Press and Publicity Officer of the CPGB from January 1983 until 1989, when she became the last general secretary of the party in January 1990, aged 33. She pledged to make the party "feminist and green, as well as democratically socialist."
In this role Temple became one of the leading proponents of the dissolution of the CPGB in November 1991, and the founding of its legal successor, the Democratic Left, proclaiming that "The internationalism of the 1990s will be as much informed by Greenpeace and Oxfam, as communism once was by Marx and Engels".