MEXICAN EDITION OF GUEVARA'S WORKS
Mexico City
Most of the works of Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara have now appeared here in collected form in a 644-page volume entitled Obra Revolucionaria [Revolutionary Works] just published by Ediciones
Guerrilla?" ("What Is a Guerrilla?"];
"Notas Para el Estudio de la Ideologia de
la Cuba Revelucionaria" ["Notes for the
Study of the Ideology, of Revolutionary
Cuba"; "Cuba, Excepcién Historica o Van-
guardia en la Lucha Anticolonialista?"
(Cuba, a Historic Exception or the Van- Era. This volume -- with a preface by guard in the Anti-Imperialist Struggle?"; Roberto Fernandez Retamar, who also made "Contra el Burocratismo" ["Against Buro~ the selection -- includes Che's two books, cratism"]; “Guerra de Guerrillas: Un Met- Guerra de Guerrillas [Guerrilla Warfare] odo" ("Guerrilla Warfare, a Method"]; and Pasajes de la Guerra Revolucionaria {Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War]; 16 speeches in Cuba and abroad, plus 16 articles and a series of letters.
Included among the speeches are his famous address to the First Latin- American Youth Congress in August 1960, "Qué Debe Ser un Joven Communista?" ("What Must a Young Communist Be?"; the two speeches at Punta del Este in August 1961; the speech in Geneva at the World Conference on Trade and Development in March 1964; the speech and rebuttal at the UN General Assembly in December 1964; and the final speech which he gave in Algeria in February 1965 during the Afro-Asian Solidarity Economic Seminar.
Among the articles are "Qué Es un
"Sobre la Concepcién del Valor ("On the
Concept of Value]; "La Planificacién So-
cialista; Su Significado" ["Socialist
Planning; Its Meaning"]; his preface to
Nguyen Giap's book People's War, People's
Army; his famous essay "El Socialismo y
el Hombre en Cuba" ["Socialism and Man in
Cuba"]; and, of course, his "Message to
the Tricontinental Congress." The letters
include his last letters to Fidel and to
his family.
The importance of this collection
is apparent from the description of its
contents. (It was prepared by Retamar
before Che's tragic death as was the pre-
face.) It costs 70 pesos (a little more
than U.S.#5.50) and can be obtained from
Ediciones Era, Aniceto Ortega 1350,
Mexico 12, D.F.