Images from the government archives of the iconic leader’s 1959 trip to India. Photo Division, Government of India In 2007, Om Thanvi, editor of the Hindi daily Jansatta, became curious about Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara’s visit to India in 1959. Che was an icon on T-shirt, but why was so little known about his trip…
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Declassified Documents | The Death of Che Guevara
By Peter Kornbluh National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 5 For more information contact: Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu Washington, D.C. – On October 9th, 1967, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was put to death by Bolivian soldiers, trained, equipped and guided by U.S. Green Beret and CIA operatives. His execution remains a historic and controversial…
Che Guevara’s Proposal for Bolivia
7 years after his murder: his draft program, for the first time in English Close to a half-century since his fall, this document reminds us that Che’s strength was not only military so much as it was essentially political and moral. That is the quality of his programmatic proposals concerning Bolivia. He did not have…
Che Guevara’s Address to the 19th General Assembly of the United Nations December 11, 1964
Spoken: December 11, 1964, 19th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. First Published: Source: The Che Reader, Ocean Press, © 2005. Translated: unknown. See Also: Alternate Translation. Transcription/Markup: Ocean Press/Brian Baggins Copyright: © 2005 Aleida March, Che Guevara Studies Center and Ocean Press. Reprinted with their permission. Not to be reproduced in…
Che Guevara | Notes on the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution
Written: October 8, 1960 Published: Verde Olivo Transcription/Markup: A .N./Brian Baggins Online Version: Ernesto Che Guevara Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2002 This is a unique revolution which some people maintain contradicts one of the most orthodox premises of the revolutionary movement, expressed by Lenin: “Without a revolutionary theory there is no revolutionary movement.” It would be…
Che Guevara’s Legacy and World Revolution
Latin America and Africa share a common heritage of struggle against imperialism Abayomi Azikiwe Revolutionary Strategic Studies This year represents the 44th anniversary of the martyrdom of Ernesto Che Guevera, the Argentine-Cuban revolutionary who made a monumental contribution to the anti-imperialist and world socialist movement in Latin America, Africa and throughout the globe. His political…
The Cadres | Backbone Of The Revolution
Spoken: September, 1962 Published: Cuba Socialista Transcription/Markup: A.N./Brian Baggins It is not necessary to dwell upon the characteristics of our revolution; upon its original form, with its dashes of spontaneity which marked the transition from a revolution of national liberation to a socialist revolution; one full of rapidly passing stages, led by the same people…
Che Guevara | The Bestiality of Imperialism
The bestiality of imperialism, a bestiality that knows no limits, that has no national boundaries. The bestiality of Hitler’s armies is like the North American bestiality, like that of the Belgian paratroopers and that of the French imperialists in Algeria. For, it is the very essence of imperialism to turn men into wild, bloodthirsty animals…
Guerrilla Warfare – A Method by Ernesto Che Guevara
Download Full Ebook – Guerrilla Warfare | A Method by Ernesto Che Guevara Guerrilla warfare has been employed throughout history on innumerable occasions and in different circumstances to obtain different objectives. Lately it has been employed in various people’s wars of liberation when the vanguard of a people have chosen the road of irregular armed…
Che Guevara | The Ideology and Practice of Revolutionary Medicine
Spoken: August 19, 1960 to the Cuban Militia Source: Obra Revolucionaria, Ano 1960, No. 24 (Official English translation) Translated: Beth Kurti Online Version: Che Guevara Internet Archive (marxists.org), 1999 Transcription/Markup: Brian Baggins This simple celebration, another among the hundreds of public functions with which the Cuban people daily celebrate their liberty, the progress of all…
Che Guevara | Economics, Imperialism and Revolution
[Formerly titled: On Growth and Imperialism] ECONOMICS CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM POLITICS Spoken: August 8, 1961 (at Punta del Este) First Published: Source: Our America — Kennedy and the Alliance for Progress, Ocean Press, © 2005. Translated: See also: Historical Translation by the OAS Transcription/Markup: Ocean Press/Brian Baggins Copyright: © 2005 Aleida March, Che Guevara…
Che Guevara Interview – New York, 1964
Che Guevara in New York, USA 1964 – Interview Interview with several journalists (narrated by Chris Couch) in the Cuban Mission HQ in New York (East 67th St).
