A seminar to launch two new books on the Lucas Plan and regional screenings of THE PLAN. There will be a screening of 15 mins of THE PLAN, a documentary about the Lucas workers 1970s campaign to transition from an exploitative, warmongering and environmentally destructive economy to one caring for social and planetary needs

Introduction by John McDonnell MP

Speakers:

Steve Sprung, Director: THE PLAN that came from the bottom up Trailer

Hilary Wainwright, co-author with Dave Elliott of THE LUCAS PLAN a new trade unionism in the making?: the story of the power struggle involved in the campaign for the Lucas Plan and how a new kind of grass roots democracy emerged through the process.

Tony Simpson, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Publisher: THE SEARCH for ALTERNATIVES Liberating human imagination: Mike Cooley listed 16 attributes of Socially Useful Production, emphasizing sustainability, usefulness, human control and international solidarity. A publisher’s response to how this approach fits with meeting current social and economic needs in health, housing and public transport.