Show threadAdrian McEwenJun 5

And if that post was a decade ago, that must mean this year is a half-century since the Lucas Plan

https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/books/blog_all_dogeared_pages_the_lucas_plan_by_hilary_wainwright_and_dave_elliott/

#LucasPlan

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Adrian McEwenJun 5

Re-reading a blog post from a decade back and wincing at my use of the term "neo-Luddite", given my better understanding that Luddite isn't what I was reaching for there.

Feels like it holds up fairly well otherwise, but I don't know how much progress we've made.

(Also interesting to note my hopes for @adamgreenfield's Radical Technologies at the end. I was only the proverbial off-by-one error from which book he'd lay out his thoughts on a way forward 😁)

https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/thinking/the_left_needs_to_get_over_its_fear_of_technology/

#LucasPlan

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Show threadStefan LückingAug 6, 2025

@ebinger
Mir fällt zu Jes 2,4 der #LucasPlan ein: der von Belegschaft und Gewerkschaft erstellte Plan zur Konversion des Rüstungsunternehmens #LucasAerospace auf zivile Produktion Anfang der 1970er Jahre:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas-Plan

Das Erstaunliche: Die meisten der Produkte waren Produkte für die sozial-ökologische Transformation: Wärmepumpen, energieeffiziente Gebäude, neue Mobilitätskonzepte.

#Frieden ist eben mehr als die Abwesenheit von Krieg.

Das Buch, in dem der Ingenieur #MikeCooley das Projekt beschreibt, hat in der deutschen Übersetzung den schönen Titel „Produkte für das Leben statt Waffen für den Tod“.

Lucas-Plan – Wikipedia

Show threadPeter RileyFeb 5, 2025

Lucas Plan Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45KLbFLjkoM

#workerscontrol #rankandfile #labormovement #frombelow #LucasPlan #militaryIndustrialComplex

Architect or Bee? A discussion about the Lucas Aerospace Workers’ Plan

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Show threadPeter RileyFeb 5, 2025

Lucas Aerospace Plan - Combine http://lucasplan.org.uk/lucas-aerospace-combine/

Video about (interviews/footage from events & illustrations)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ItWliyEMM0

#antiMilitarism #frombelow #rankandfile #workerscontrol
#LucasPlan #MilitaryIndustrialComplex

Lucas Aerospace Combine/Archive – The Lucas Plan

Kjerstin GjengedalNov 7, 2023

"And the two governments should transition some of their military and arms manufacturing sectors to focus on green manufacturing, the authors say, drawing inspiration from previous worker-led conversion projects, such as the 1970s plan by workers at the UK’s Lucas Aerospace – created when facing cuts to production – to shift to producing needed goods like medical equipment and heat pumps." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/06/study-us-and-uk-militaries-owe-combined-111bn-in-climate-reparations

#våpenindustri #LucasPlan

US and UK militaries ‘owe’ combined $111bn in climate reparations – study

Exclusive: study finds militaries have generated about 430m metric tonnes of CO2 emissions since 2015 Paris accords

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danmcquillanMay 11, 2023
Struck by the overlaps between Ted Chiang's New Yorker piece https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey and the arguments in 'Resisting AI'. If you think he's got a point but want more in-depth analysis and a more radical response than 'less harmful capitalism' check out https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai #TedChiang #ResistingAI #Luddites #LucasPlan
Show threadAdrian McEwenJan 9, 2023

@gleemie Ah, glad I shared then 😀

There's another (shorter, from the time the plan was happening) on YouTube, and a couple of other links to articles about it (inc. another from @smithadrianpaul, who wrote the one you posted) in http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/thinking/the_left_needs_to_get_over_its_fear_of_technology.html

And the sections of the book on the #LucasPlan that I dog-eared at http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/books/blog_all_dogeared_pages_the_lucas_plan_by_hilary_wainwright_and_dave_elliott.html

(Think I've run out of related things to bombard you with now 🤣 )

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Show threadAdrian McEwenJan 9, 2023

@gleemie This is excellent. I hope you encourage them to share any good proposals 😁

I assume you know of the recent(ish) documentary on the #LucasPlan? http://theplandocumentary.com/

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Adrian McEwenMar 1, 2020
I'm off to watch the #LucasPlan documentary http://theplandocumentary.com/ this afternoon, and then take part in a Q&A panel afterwards. In prep I've been looking back over some old blog posts. First off a talk I gave at #FACTLiverpool at their #ClimateForChange event in 2009, pitching what became #DoESLiverpool http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/liverpool/new_ways_of_working.html and then Is the "Maker Movement" a Movement? http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/thinking/is_the_maker_movement_a_movement.html
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