Guerrilla Warfare (book)

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Guerrilla Warfare is a book by the Communist revolutionary Che Guevara that was written right after the Cuban Revolution and published in 1961. Guevara intended it to be a manual on guerrilla warfare, elaborating the foco theory (foquismo) for other revolutionary movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia, but the book was also studied by counterrevolutionary military schools.

However, Guevara emphasizes that guerilla warfare is a favorable method only against totalitarian regimes, (such as the revolutionary war against the Batista dictatorship in Cuba), where political opposition and legal civil struggle is impossible to conduct.

Guevara dedicated the book to his recently deceased comrade Camilo Cienfuegos, “who should have read and corrected it, but whose fate prevented him from carrying out the task.”