Ken Coates (politician)

Ken Coates
Ken Coates
	Official portrait as a Member of the European Parliament
Member of the European Parliament
	In office; 18 June 1989 – 13 June 1999
Preceded by	Michael Kilby (1989); Constituency established (1994);
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Nottingham (until 1994); Nottinghamshire North and Chesterfield (from 1994);
Personal details
Born	16 September 1930; Leek, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Died	27 June 2010 (aged 79)
Party	Labour (until 1998)
Other political; affiliations	Independent (from 1998); European United Left/Nordic Green Left; Communist Party of Great Britain (c. 1945–1948);

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Kenneth Sidney Coates (16 September 1930 – 27 June 2010) was a British politician and writer. He chaired the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation (BRPF) and edited The Spokesman, the BRPF magazine launched in March 1970. He was a Member of the European Parliament from the Labour Party from 1989 to 1998 until his expulsion, and was then an independent member of GUE/NGL from 1998 to 1999. Coates also played leading roles in the Institute for Workers' Control and European Nuclear Disarmament.