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Guerrilla Warfare by the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, written in 1960, has become a how-to manual for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world. Guevara intended it to be a guidebook on guerrilla warfare, as inspiration for the revolutionary movement. Fascinating to admirers and adversaries alike, he captured the minds of millions with his leadership and his belief in guerrilla warfare as the only effective agent to achieve political change.

Here, in his own classic text on revolution, Che draws on his firsthand experience of the Cuban campaign to document all aspects of guerrilla warfare, from its aims to its organization and training. He analyses how in Cuba, against all odds, a small band of dedicated fighters grew in strength with the support of the people to defeat a dictator's army. Guevara emphasizes that guerrilla warfare is a favorable method against totalitarian regimes, where political opposition and legal civil struggle is impossible to conduct.

Cover Photo: © 2019 Aleida March, Che Guevara Studies Center (Havana), and Ocean Press

©1960, 2006 Ernesto Che Guevara and Aleida March (P)2021 Audible, Inc. 20th Century Activists Military & War Modern Politicians Politics & Activism Politics & Government Warfare Latin American Military
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Che Guevara writes with a profound clarity from the perspective of the oppressed worker who is confronting the establishment and attempting, through armed rebellion, to uproot its tyranny and overthrow its injustice. Of course, as any worker understands, such a fight is asymmetric and bound to result in substantial losses for the worker. Those who hold the power dictate the conflict. Che's assessment involves how the logical mind should be applied if the worker is to comprehend and adjust to his reality. This is because the worker stands naked in the maelstrom of the violence the authorities will unleash against anyone who dares to stand up and shout "enough"! Che provides a model for this adjustment gained from years of practical experience fighting for Cuba, but also in Africa, and South America. Remember, Che was a qualified medical doctor, and initially part of the middle class that controls society. He saw reality from both sides.

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