CONTENTS

Ernesto Che Guevara

Introduction to the second edition by David Deutschmann

Chronology

PART 1: THE CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Selections from Episodes of the Revolutionary War

A revolution begins

Alegría de Pío

The battle of La Plata

A betrayal in the making

The murdered puppy

Interlude

A decisive meeting

The final offensive and the battle of Santa Clara

El Patojo

What we have learned and what we have taught (December 1958)

The essence of guerrilla struggle (1960)

Guerrilla warfare: A method (September 1963)

PART 2: THE CUBA YEARS 1959–65

Social ideals of the Rebel Army (January 29, 1959)

Political sovereignty and economic independence (March 20, 1960)

Speech to medical students and health workers (August 20, 1960)

Notes for the study of the ideology of the Cuban Revolution (October 1960)

Cuba: Historical exception or vanguard in the anticolonial struggle? (April 9, 1961)

A new culture of work (August 21, 1962)

The cadre: Backbone of the revolution (September 1962)

To be a Young Communist (October 20, 1962)

A party of the working class (1963)

Against bureaucratism (February 1963)

On the budgetary finance system (February 1964)

Socialism and man in Cuba (1965)

PART 3: INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY

Speech to the Latin American youth congress (July 28, 1960)

The OAS conference at Punta del Este (August 8, 1961)

The Cuban Revolution’s influence in Latin America (May 18, 1962)

Tactics and strategy of the Latin American revolution (October–November 1962)

The philosophy of plunder must cease (March 25, 1964)

At the United Nations (December 11, 1964)

At the Afro-Asian conference in Algeria (February 24, 1965)

Create two, three, many Vietnams (Message to the Tricontinental, April 1967)

PART 4: LETTERS

To José E. Martí Leyva

To José Tiquet

To Dr. Fernando Barral

To Carlos Franqui

To Guillermo Lorentzen

To Peter Marucci

To Dr. Aleida Coto Martínez

To the compañeros of the Motorcycle Assembly Plant

To Pablo Díaz González

To Lydia Ares Rodríguez

To María Rosario Guevara

To José Medero Mestre

To Eduardo B. Ordaz Ducungé

To Haydée Santamaría

To Dr. Regino G. Boti

To Elías Entralgo

To my children

To my parents

To Hildita

To Fidel Castro

To my children

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography of Che Guevara’s writings and speeches

Index

“We are realists...
We dream the impossible”

Che Guevara