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Andrew Murray (born 1958) is a British campaigner and journalist who was Chair of the Stop the War Coalition from its formation in 2001 until September 2011, and again from September 2015. Murray has been a senior official for several trade unions over a couple of decades ==Career== A former ''Morning Star'' journalist, a publication to which he still contributes, Murray was appointed as a parliamentary lobby correspondent at the age of 19. Later he became an official for the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF). From 1986 to 1987, he worked for the Soviet Novosti news agency.〔Nick Cohen ("Strange bedfellows", ) ''New Statesman'', 7 April 2003〕 At the Transport and General Workers Union, an organisation for which he worked from 1987 to 1998 and again from 2003,〔Tom Williams ("Former ASLEF media boss takes on T&G comms role", ) ''PR Week UK'', 7 November 2003, as reproduced on the Printweek website〕 he was heavily involved in the conduct of the British Airways cabin crew strike of 1997, and in the successful general secretary election campaigns of Bill Morris (1991 and 1995) and Tony Woodley (2003) and, after the formation of Unite as a merger of the T&G and Amicus, of Len McCluskey in 2010. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1976 and was later associated with its Straight Left faction. Following the dissolution of the CPGB in 1991 he was a leader of the Communist Liaison group, which itself dissolved in 1995 with its members joining the Communist Party of Britain, of which he remains a member. He served on the Party's leadership from 2000 to 2004, and was an advocate of the Communist Party supporting the Respect Coalition in the European and municipal elections that year. He served once more on the party's executive from 2008 until 2011. Murray is presently Chief of Staff for Unite responsible for most of the union's central departments and for its ten regions. In April 2011 he was elected to the TUC General Council. In November 2011, ahead of the public sector pension strike, he was named by Education Secretary Michael Gove as being, along with Len McCluskey and Mark Serwotka, as one of three union "militants" who were "itching for a fight". He defended Arthur Scargill in a review of ''Marching to the Fault Line'' by Francis Beckett and David Hencke, which criticises the NUM leader's role in the miners' strike, advising ''Morning Star'' readers not to buy the book as doing so would only "feed the jackals."〔Andrew Murray ("Miners strike hatchet job" ), ''Morning Star'', 13 March 2009〕 As chair of Stop the War, he presided at the concluding rally against the Iraq war in 2003, a rally which is claimed as the largest political demonstration in British history. In September 2011 Murray stood down as Stop the War Chair and was succeeded by Jeremy Corbyn MP. He was elected by the Coalition's Steering Committee to the new post of Deputy President, but returned to the position of Chair in September 2015, following Corbyn's election as Leader of the Labour Party. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Murray (campaigner and journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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