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"If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good intellectual reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wishing to act with others, to 'do something, ' you already have much in common with the writers of the three essays in this book." -- <b>Adrienne Rich </b> <p></p>With a preface by Adrienne Rich, <i>Manifesto</i> presents the radical vision of four famous young rebels: Marx and Engels' <i>Communist Manifesto</i>, Rosa Luxemburg's <i>Reform or Revolution</i> and Che Guevara's <i>Socialism and Humanity</i>. <br />

<br />"A wonderful glimpse into the maturing mind of a great man and a vital companion to the previous Che diaries."--Michael McCaughan, <i>The Irish Times</i> <p></p>"An absorbing glimpse of the development of a legendary revolutionary figure." <i>--Booklist</i> <p></p>This is the first US Spanish edition of Che Guevara's diary from his second journey through Latin America. Che finds himself in Guatemala during a US-inspired coup and also describes his historic first encounter with Fidel Castro. <br />

<p>"[The editors] have done an admirable, even heroic, job of editing and excerpting this reader [which] serves a purpose for both historians and politicos."--<em>Foreword Reviews</em> </p> <p>Gabriel Garcia Marquez described Fidel Castro as the "master of the spoken word." After leading an audacious revolutionary movement on the tiny island of Cuba, Fidel Castro became a prominent spokesperson of the anticolonial struggle and a penetrating political thinker and leader on the world stage. Surviving numerous assassination attempts and outlasting eleven US administrations, Castro lived to see Washington finally acknowledge the futility of the aggressive policy adopted against Cuba for over fifty years.</p>

<p>A range of prominent Colombian academics and political commentators discuss the issues confronting the peace negotiations that began in Havana in November 2012 between the FARC and the Colombian government and how a successful political solution might also achieve social justice for the long-suffering Colombian people.</p>

<p>An exclusive collection of Fidel Castro's own remarkably frank writings about his formative years. This new, expanded edition, featuring a brilliant introductory essay by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, includes previously unpublished personal reflections by the Cuban president.</p> <p>"We have no doubt that he will make a brilliant name for himself. Fidel has what it takes and will make something of himself."--From Fidel Castro's final school report, 1945.</p> <p>"Fidel Castro's autobiography in the form of personal sketches offering a glimpse of him as a young boy and as a young rebel . . . Fascinating reading."--<i>Midwest Book Review</i></p> <p>Also available in Spanish as <i>Fidel en la memorio del joven que es</i> (ISBN 1-876175-16-8)</p>

<p>Here, Che Guevara's classic work on social change and human nature, reviewing the early years of Cuba's revolution and analyzing the role of the individual in transforming the social, economic, and political structures of capitalist society. It is one</p>

<p>Salvador Sanchez Ceren, better known by his nom de guerre Comandante Leonel Gonzalez, was elected El Salvador's vice president for the FMLN (Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberacion Nacional) in the closely-contested March 2009 elections.</p> <p>In this updated and expanded edition (the first edition sold out in less than one year), the author relates his life journey--from teaching in a poor village, to his decision to take up arms to pursue his humanist and revolutionary cause, to his key role in the negotiations that brought peace (if not social justice), to his strife-torn Central American homeland.</p>

<p>The Popular Unity government (1970-73) under President Allende was a popularly elected, democratic, nationalist government committed to sovereignty, self-determination, and the recovery and control of Chile's great wealth for the benefit of the people. Nevertheless, Washington viewed this as a threat to US hegemony and backed the bloody 9-11-1973 coup.</p>

<p>The trial judge called them "anarchistic bastards." Political activists, Italian-born Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were framed and executed for murder in a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria in Boston in the 1920s. By illustrating how anarchists and immigrants were the "terrorists" of yesteryear, this book is a grim reminder of the consequences of using fear as a political weapon.</p> <p>Eventually pardoned in 1977 by Governor Dukakis, Sacco and Vanzetti's case sparked an unprecedented international defense campaign--including among it's supporters writers, artists, and musicians--and remains one of the most famous political trials in history.</p> <p>"[Vanzetti] loved his adopted country, but his hatred of war was greater than his devotion to an abstraction."--William Kunstler (U.S. civil rights lawyer)</p>

<p>This book about the Polish revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg includes an introduction by Argentine intellectual Nestor Kohan, a brief tribute by Clara Zetkin, and a poignant short piece by Luxemburg (published for the first time in Spanish) about a Christmas Eve mass poisoning in a homeless shelter in Berlin.</p> <br />

<p>This unpublished book was written by the Salvadoran revolutionary and poet shortly before his death. Composed of two book-length essays, "The imperialist apparatus in Central America" and "El Salvador in the Central American revolution," it describes the nature of imperialism and considers perspectives for revolutionary change in Central America.</p>