East Sussex Co-operative Party: September 2015

Wednesday 9 September 2015

The scheduled meeting for Saturday 12th September has been postponed due to several members attending the Special Labour Conference that day. Details of new date soon.

Tuesday 1 September 2015

Co-operators and the Labour Leadership

For almost a century, the Co-operative Party and the Labour party have stood together to build a society where power is more fairly shared. As Labour elects its next leader and deputy leader, the Co-operative Party organised an opportunity for members to hear what the candidates have to say on issues of importance to our movement. The video below covers the whole of the leadership hustings which took place on 21st July 2015 in London.

Officers of the East Sussex branch of the Co-operative Party

About the Co-operative Party

The Co-operative Party is the political arm of the co-operative movement. We have more than 9,000 members.

Our party was established in 1917 and has been a sister party of the Labour Party since 1927.

We believe that people achieve more by working together than they can by working alone. We support the efforts of those who seek success through that co-operative endeavour.

We believe that the only way to create a just and fair society is through power being spread evenly throughout society, and not arbitrarily based on wealth, class, gender or race.

We work to promote co-operatives and all forms of mutual organisation.

We work in partnership with the Labour Party as its sister party to achieve these ends. That means we stand candidates jointly with the Labour Party at all levels of government. There are currently 29 Labour and Co-operative MPs in the House of Commons, 15 Members of the House of Lords, 5 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 9 Members of the Welsh Assembly and hundreds of councillors around the country.