Kris Stewart (born February 9, 1967, in Portsmouth) is the founding chairmanhttp://www.wisa.org.uk/cgi/l/articles/index.cgi?action=show&id=154 of English football club AFC Wimbledon and a left wing political activist. He was the club's chief executive and is also a CIMA past finalist management accountant. Under his leadership, AFC Wimbledon achieved numerous milestones including their first ever match, a friendly against Sutton United, as well as their first competitive game in the Combined Counties League away at Sandhurst, and a sell-out game against Chipstead at Kingsmeadow.https://www.theguardian.com/football/2002/jul/14/sport.comment He is a former member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and stood as the Left List's candidate for Merton and Wandsworthhttp://www.electrespectcoalition.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64 http://www.electrespectcoalition.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64 in the 2008 London Assembly election.
In 2013, he resigned from the SWP due to the party's rape scandal and co-founded the International Socialist Network with around 100 other former members.
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