Che Guevara Reader

by Guevara, Ernesto Che

• ISBN13: 9781876175696
• ISBN10: 1876175699
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Ocean Pr

Summary

The most comprehensive version of Che's writings available in English. Covering Che's writings on the Cuban revolutionary war, the first years of the revolution in Cuba and his vision for Latin America and the third world, it includes such classic essays as "Socialism and Man in Cuba" and "Two, Three, Many Vietnams". Contains several unpublished articles, essays and letters, including a letter from Che to his children shortly before his death in Bolivia in 1967 and an essay, "Strategy and Tactics for the Latin American Revolution".

Table of Contents

Ernesto Che Guevara	ix
Introduction to the second edition by David Deutschmann	1	(6)
Chronology	7	(12)
PART 1: THE CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Selections from Episodes of the Revolutionary War
A revolution begins	19	(4)
Alegria de Pio	23	(3)
The battle of La Plata	26	(4)
A betrayal in the making	30	(5)
The murdered puppy	35	(2)
Interlude	37	(5)
A decisive meeting	42	(5)
The final offensive and the battle of Santa Clara	47	(10)
El Patojo	57	(4)
What we have learned and what we have taught (December 1958)	61	(3)
The essence of guerrilla struggle (1960)	64	(6)
Guerrilla warfare: A method (September 1963)	70	(17)
PART 2: THE CUBA YEARS 1959-65
Social ideals of the Rebel Army (January 29, 1959)	87	(9)
Political sovereignty and economic independence (March 20, 1960)	96	(16)
Speech to medical students and health workers (August 20, 1960)	112	(9)
Notes for the study of the ideology of the Cuban Revolution (October 1960)	121	(9)
Cuba: Historical exception or vanguard in the anticolonial struggle? (April 9, 1961)	130	(13)
A new culture of work (August 21, 1962)	143	(10)
The cadre: Backbone of the revolution (September 1962)	153	(5)
To be a Young Communist (October 20, 1962)	158	(11)
A party of the working class (1963)	169	(9)
Against bureaucratism (February 1963)	178	(6)
On the budgetary finance system (February 1964)	184	(28)
Socialism and man in Cuba (1965)	212	(19)
PART 3: INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
Speech to the Latin American youth congress (July 28, 1960)	231	(11)
The OAS conference at Punta del Este (August 8, 1961)	242	(33)
The Cuban Revolution's influence in Latin America (May 18, 1962)	275	(19)
Tactics and strategy of the Latin American revolution (October-November 1962)	294	(11)
The philosophy of plunder must cease (March 25, 1964)	305	(20)
At the United Nations (December 11, 1964)	325	(15)
At the Afro-Asian conference in Algeria (February 24, 1965)	340	(10)
Create two, three, many Vietnams (Message to the Tricontinental, April 1967)	350	(15)
PART 4: LETTERS
To José E. Marti Leyva	365	(1)
To José Tiquet	366	(1)
To Dr. Fernando Barral	367	(1)
To Carlos Franqui	368	(2)
To Guillermo Lorentzen	370	(1)
To Peter Marucci	371	(1)
To Dr, Aleida Coto Martinez	372	(1)
To the compañeros of the Motorcycle Assembly Plant	373	(1)
To Pablo Diaz González	374	(1)
To Lydia Ares Rodriguez	375	(1)
To Maria Rosario Guevara	376	(1)
To José Medero Mestre	377	(2)
To Eduardo B. Ordaz Ducungé	379	(1)
To Haydée Santamaria	380	(1)
To Dr. Regino G. Boti	381	(1)
To Elias Entralgo	382	(1)
To my children	383	(1)
To my parents	384	(1)
To Hildita	385	(1)
To Fidel Castro	386	(2)
To my children	388	(2)
Notes	390	(14)
Glossary	404	(10)
Bibliography of Che Guevara's writings and speeches	414	(18)
Index	432