[Marxism] What's new in Links: Cuba; climate change; India; African farmers

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    Cuban permaculturist: `Climate change means we must change'
    <http://links.org.au/node/332>


        Cuban permaculturist to speak at Climate Change | Social Change
        conference, April 11-13, Sydney. Click here
        <http://links.org.au/node/332> for more videos and text.

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    A revolutionary response to the climate change crisis
    <http://links.org.au/node/329>

/``We need an emergency mobilisation of society, a five- or 10-year plan 
to achieve a drastic reorientation of our economy and use of energy. 
Anything else is simply not serious.//''/

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    The CPI (M) and stages of revolution <http://links.org.au/node/330>

By *Dipankar Basu*

March 25, 2008 *-- *This article attempts to throw some light on the 
following two questions: (1) How does the classical Marxist tradition 
conceptualise the relationship between the two stages of revolution: 
democratic and the socialist? (2) Does the democratic revolution lead to 
deepening and widening capitalism? Is capitalism necessary to develop 
the productive capacity of a society?

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    African agriculture and the World Bank: Development or
    impoverishment? <http://links.org.au/node/328>

By *Kjell Havnevik, Deborah Bryceson, Lars-Erik Birgegård, Prosper 
Matondi* & *Atakilte Beyene*

Agriculture's dominant role in Sub-Saharan Africa's local, national and 
regional economies and cultures throughout pre-colonial history has been 
foundational to 20th century colonial and post-colonial development. No 
other continent has been so closely identified with smallholder peasant 
farming. Nonetheless, smallholder farming has been eroding over the last 
three decades, perpetuating rural poverty and marginalising remote rural 
areas. Donors' search for rural ``success stories'' merely reinforces 
this fact. Certainly many farmers have voted with their feet by 
increasingly engaging in non-agricultural livelihoods or migrating to 
urban areas. In so doing, the significance of agriculture for the 
majority of Africa's population has altered.

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different political traditions. It seeks to bring together those in the 
international left who are opposed to neoliberal economic and social 
policies. It aims to promote the renewal of the socialist movement in 
the wake of the collapse of the bureaucratic model of "actually existing 
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