Urgent- Use your vote for the Co-op Group AGM

After 98 years of changing Britain for the better, the Co-operative's voice in politics could be silenced.  You have the power to keep it.

Showing a grotesque ignorance of the history, values and strength of the Co-operative Movement,  Allan Leighton the new Chief Executive of the Co-Operative Group (Britain's largest co-operative, and a major supporter of the Co-operative Party) has said that "It's the apples not the activists that will transform the Co-op"

If you have received a Co-op AGM pack via post or email, the deadline to vote online is noon on Wednesday 13th May.

The Co-operative Party is at risk. Time is running out save it. Vote 'YES' to motions 9 and 10 to keep the link.

For more information visit http://keepit.coop/how_to_vote or watch the film below.

There's also a great article from Paul Routledge in the Mirror, where he exposes what he calls a "Trojan Horse" style plot to strip the progressive politics from the Co-op.

Co-operators standing in Old Town, Eastbourne

Labour and the Co-operative Party have a joint slate of candidates for Eastbourne Borough Council's Old Town ward on May 7th. Chair of East Sussex Co-operative Party Jean Couture is joined by journalist Paul Richards and Unite Equalities organiser Sharon Wentworth in leading the campaign for co-operative values in Eastbourne. You can find out about them, and their opponents, on the Eastbourne Herald website here.

Sarah Owen is a Labour and Co-op Candidate for Hastings in the General Election; and the Labour candidates in Eastbourne (Jake Lambert), Lewes (Lloyd Russell-Moyle) and Bexhill and Battle (Michelle Thew) are individual members of East Sussex Co-operative Party. Branch secretary Dave Brinson is standing as a Labour candidate in the Devonshire ward of Eastbourne.

For electoral law purposes, the info about Old Town candidates is published by Lisa Gilette on behalf of Jean Couture, Paul Richards and Sharon Wentworth, all of 1 West Street, Eastbourne.