CHE GUEVARA was one of the great men of this century. His stature will continue to grow for many years to come, as the battles which he began, and lost, transform themselves into the wars which will be fought, and won, by the men who take inspiration from his example, He was killed in the heart of the nd the bacill it breeds are likely to Andean wilderness, in a coun be loosed upon brown or yellow peopl inhospitable and frightening many provides a stark natural symbol DOV the grotesque and inhuman social which he dedicated life civilised, change. Within days of hi laboratones mis picture demonstrations in the rect. being carried burning men: the burned live in the jungles of SouthLondon, Paris, Rome, Tokyo and East Asia or in the Venezuelan Trains. Meanwhile, the diseases of mal nutrition flourish through the exploited He was mourned in Vietnam the which daily Western tropics. and the temperate, exploiting DOmDS CarT and man-burning nations cope with civliisation to the peasants th the complex medical problems of overcounty. From 'onakry linea, eating!
Stokely Carmichael American Negroes' response Che's Just as disease ranges across national last written message: boundaries; just as poverty mounts remorseless onslaught on is to be waged in the morale around the world; just as igPhiladelphia norance and superstition are cultivated a deported enc tor prout in сусту continent; just as greed and arrogance amandit he set their imperial armies upor Vietnams = f hungry peoples wherever they begin to plained clearly there stir towards new ways of life; just talk that contraclear, modem. persal in its effect upon the impover ishment of three continents: 30 Ch Guevara took up his position revolutionary against was remarkable not exploitation. only of his ideas, but also of his actions. Born in Argentina, he died Just as he was willing to fight, in Bolivia, having played an extra- risk life ordinarily courageous part in political in the Congo, struggles not only in Cuba, but also would, had the call come, in Guatemala and the congo. ric in treece or l England. For him one legitimate boundary verse: there were human there were those thwarted numa vented their free ment. Betweer drew a line of fire and other frontier had meaning At every street-corner in sees scrawled the slogan:
As a boy he toured the Andes on an of every old motor-cycle. took a job as a revolution For at a Chilean mine, and worked tions, after the time in a Peruvian leper colony. oviet upheaval, this simple trut disappeared in most of the ing with these pathetic exiles that he must give his life to of the earth, Cuban leprosy, he too while any man was a leper. WAS outcas He the initiative of Fidel Castro and turned to Argentina to qualify Guevara, this He appears: never established.
KEN COATES tion, anal subsequently initiated the first attack on the barracks at Mon• on zo yuly, 1935.
But throughout the Third World there dozens of territores in which any * democratic' possibilities which might once have seemed plausible have thousands of miles away. The Jong since evaporated. In Alrica:
Rhodesia, Angola, Mozambique, South conducted Africa South Korea. In Europe, on the In Asia: Thailand, CIRCIC are to be Ways politai margins of the Fi moun- upsurge layed here or there by a year of these i be Bout loing the example green boy Che Guevara, reinforced every by the extraordinary struggles of Vietnamese National Liberation Front who can doubt that before long, here, or there, new groups of freedom fighters will put down roots, new fronts will be openedi human And although the theory of guerrilla wartare is developing Third Wir always rail be e assume that it CUrI or cach will always remain Stokely Carmichael calls for urbar guerrillas in the North American ghettoes, long deonver or elementar SOCIAL MEALS some of the advanced Buropean Impesonal marKer 15 1673 cotintries, it may be that traditional forms of political action will produce the total social I renewal necessary for a world-wide meeting the nev industrial revoluto with appropriate human, democratic, system of injustice, of oppression, of controls. Failure to do so will make life literally intolerable. and But the evidence, so far, is not and in Bolivia; so he everyday, in Cuba, couraging. Across ditional Labour, Socialist and the board, the radical have died Spain, or in movement of the aavancer seem far more likely to lose countie: than to there their tug-of-war with the élites and financial oligarchies dominate them. Too often, as beings, power and Britain, win' what the appear to be traditional movemcal significant growth and forces, DOlCal DALLICS leadership is quickly only to find that thei assimilated by hatred the dominant social power; far from for him.
Cuba, extending wealth, and increasing direct social democratic ove duty accountability, they become involved revolutionary is to demobilise the forces almost two brought them to office, and to initial impac the freedome of the very they once purported to reuntil the advent of thi If the established Socialist and trade ative at the Casty and unt union movements of advanced Europ ontinue to fall in their objects axiom is today extend асу into the heartlands the power structures which thes then those power structure emboldened by such in Colombia time that power is only of value if the are equal, but objects for which it is sought are o than others value: but it is quite extraordinari The Hungarian Revolution persuaded After the difficult to show this in one's own life victory of the Cuban Revo many of us groundless. The that these lution, Che wat established, acros has reinforced that negative lesson b world.
Maestra won [nat can create vas it that Che believed, that mad his actions so pure?
NSWER: Socialism began as a mov nion Cienfueg death-blor to the the unlimited developmen vidual personality, into extension of the entrustec realisation. If vital appalled Socialists, tortres that he became, successively, political department of th army President of the National whose banknotes he signed with Iberal. the single inscription 'Che"; Minister ability and feeling ndustr spokesman for his enable them to they had it in This appreciation in the years of Soviet Union cognition of the tion. Booming solaced the ideals Socialist forebears for acts of public was mangled ductivity. There ountry at the United Nations. He wa a capable, generous and insightful ad ministrator. He had established, beyond any dispute not only his claim upon, but also his usefulness to, a Covern ment bel by a million prob same time undertakprogramme of tasks network Prom ·a51 ing to worke extended across the island of first mendous schemes for industrial jectivity is awn arbiter of ability agricultural development wer wound. Any man could find a second, Work measured of overbearing reasons for remaining in the seats of power with so much to ClOCKs and we do, and so few people even remotely " ability' in approaching , his calibre to do it. carefully ' objective' No one can think that Che Guevara word has could not have been whatever he ha of the Socialis wanted be in Revolutionary Cuba We are speaking here But this man, a national legend, re thinks that vered on all sides, put all these tasks OnE and all these on one side and and the overcoming of the combatant in labour itself, can be established equal l of a commercially motivated Socia in which the ore diet bring itmore and more distorting on cconomic deCISIOnS: disCuban Revolution placing the uman prioriti which Be Revolution had laboured to asse And perhap inderdeveloped country, such distortion the contribu capacity TOr experience that What motives are here such a person Wha our healtl serVic erosion of our publi convince us that the capabl meeting huma: unless they have their own underpinning, Private public squalor are for affluent and squalic respectively capacity the third world than they are in th poverty metropoles.
To avoid the growth of the THERE this market, as well as to prevent undermining of the solidarity working people in a rat-race miums, Che Guevara insisted enormou! Cubans should establish their poor, models for planning, which what commitment formed the firm hemse went Freedon munisn at ine sane time And accused of heresy, he then • Very well This heresy, expresses perfectly, is heresy policy. Compassion