Manchester, England. 26th September 2006. The Stop the War Coalition and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) hold a fringe rally in Manchester while the Labour Party conference is taking place in the city. This clip shows the whole of a speech by newly elected Labour Party National Executive member, Walter Wolfgang, at the rally. Wolfgang is a German-born jew. His family suffered persecution under the Nazis, and in 1937 his parents arranged for the teenaged Walter to move from Frankfurt to Britain (this was before the start of the Kindertransport programme).
He became an unlikely hero after cameras recorded this frail senior citizen being forcibly ejected from the annual Labour Party Conference in Brighton on September 28, 2005 during a speech on the Iraq War, in an incident that provoked much media comment and embarrassed to the Labour leadership. His "crime" was to interject during Jack Straw's speech calling out the single world "nonsense". This was in response to Straw's comment that "We are in Iraq for one reason only: to help the elected Iraqi government build a secure, democratic and stable nation". The following day, he was then charged under the anti-terrorism legislation--along with 600 hundred other people in Brighton during the week of the 2005 Labour conference.
Wolfgang was subsequently elected to the Labour Party national executive committee by an outraged membership. He is also vice president of CND and vice chair of Labour CND.
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