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Nina Claire Temple (born 21 April 1956) is a British politician who was the last SecretaryTemple dropped 'General' from her job description, see Francis Beckett Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party, London: John Murray, 1995, p213 of the Communist Party of Great Britain and was formerly a think-tank director in the United Kingdom.
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".
In June 2005 she started work as head of development and communications at the Social Market Foundation, a role she held until 2008.
Temple became ill with Parkinson's disease in 2000. She trained in counselling at the Gestalt therapy in Old Street, and in September 2003 founded Sing For Joy, a choir of people with chronic degenerative diseases.
Personal life
Temple has two children with a schoolteacher, a daughter born in 1987 and a son born in 1988.
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