B o o k s b y t h e E d it o r

H alf a Century of Socialism: Soviet L ife in the Sixties Guerrilla and Counter-Guerrilla Warfare

The Forest: A Personal Record of the H uk Guerrilla Struggle in the Philippines

Beyond Barriers (poems)

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!ro G-GUERRILtA WARFARE AND MARXISMA COLLECTION O F WRITINGS FROM KARL MARX

TO T H E PRESENT ON ARMED STRUGGLES FOR

LIBERATION AND FOR SOCIALISM

Edited , with an Introduction

b y W i l l i a m J . P o m e r o y

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A cknowledgmentsExcerpts from Ernesto Che Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare, copy­

right by Monthly Review Press, 19GI, and from Regis Debray,v Z u lr j rH thS I} evolutionf copyright by Monthly Review

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onnolly^ Revolutionary Warfare, copyright by New Book Publi­cations. Dublin and Belfast, 1968. Fernand Grenier, Franc-Tireurs et I artisans F ra n k s , copyright by Cobbett, London. 1943. E. Joannides, Bloody Hut Unbound, copyright by Hermes Press, London, 1919. A num ber of selections are from articles first appearing in the journals World Marxist Review, Prague and Toronto; The African Communist, London; Labour M onthly, London; and Political Affairs, New York.

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Contents

IN T R O D U C T IO N b y W i l l i a m J . P o m e r o y

p a r t o n e : H ISTO R IC A L BACKGROUND

K a r l M a r x and F r e d e r ic k E n c e ls , T he Art of Insurrection, 53

K a r l M a r x , Guerrilla W arfare in Spain, 54 F r e d e r ic k E n g e ls , On Guerrilla W arfare, 57 K a r l M a r x , T he Paris Commune, 61 F r e d e r ic k E n g e ls , T he Force Theory, 63-------- . Barricade Tactics, 68V. I. L e n in , T h e Revolutionary Army and the

Revolutionary Government, 73-------- . Lessons of the Moscow Uprising, 77-------- , G uerrilla W arfare, 84-------- . Lessons of the Commune, 94-------- .A rm ed Struggle in the 1905 Revolution, 97-------- .T h e Irish Rebellion of 1916, 102-------- . National Wars Against Imperialism, 107-------- .M arxism and Insurrection, 109-------- .E m ancipation of the Peoples of the East, 115

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p a r t t w o : CONTEM PORARY TH EO RY AND PRA CTICE

I. T H E SOVIET U NION

1. I. M in z , Guerrillas in the Civil War, 1242. A. F y o d o r o v , Soviet Partisans in W orld W ar II, 127

II. EU ROPE

1. J a m e s C o n n o l l y , Street Fighting, 1362. E n r iq u e L is t e r , Guerrilla W arfare in Spain,

1939-51, 1393. J o sip B r o z T i t o , Specific Features of the Yugoslav

Liberation Struggle, 146

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1.' “ .T h e Party and the Liberation Army, 1515. F e r n a n d G r e n i e r , French Partisans in

W orld W ar II, 1546. E. J o a n n i d e s , 1 he Greek Resistance Against Nazi

Occupation, 1587. Zizis Z o c r a f o s , Lessons of the Greek Civil War, 161

III. CHINA

1. M a o T s e -t u n c , T h e M ilitary Problem, 168 2- »On the Purely M ilitary Viewpoint, 174

1 Characteristics of C hina’s Revolutionary War, 177

’ ®ase Areas in the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla War, 183

5. L in P iao, International Significance o f Comrade M aoI se-tung’s Theory of People’s War, 194

IV. SOUTHEA ST ASIA

1. H o C hi M in h , Instruction to Establish the VietnamO Propaganda U nit for National Liberation, 2032. Vo N c u y e n G i a p , T he General Insurrection of

August 1945, 204S- --------*T he Resistance W ar Against French

Imperialism, 2084. L e D u a n , Political and M ilitary Forces in

Revolutionary War, 2225. W i l f r e d G. B u r c h e t t , “Self-Defense’' Centers in a

People’s War, 2256. Philippines: H ukbalahap and its Mass Base, 2297. J o r c e M a r a v i l l a , T he Postwar H uk in the

Philippines, 2378. Indonesia: Peaceful and Non-Peaceful Ways, 242

V. AFRICA

1. Algeria:Features of the Armed Struggle, 2492. B a s h i r H a d j A li , Lessons of the Algerian Liberation

Struggle, 2543. A m i l c a r C a b r a l , National Liberation and the Social

Structure, 2614. South Africa: T he Revolutionary Way, 269

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5. K w a m e N k r u m a h , A Political-Military Strategy forAfrican Liberation, 275

VI. LA T IN AMERICA

1. E r n e s t o Che G u e v a r a , Lessons of the CubanRevolution, 287

2 . , W hat Is a Guerrilla? 2883. OLAS: General Declaration, 2914. I id e l C a s t r o , Speech to the OLAS Conference, 295

; 5. R e g is D e b r a y , Revolution in the Revolution? 2986 . J u a n R o d r i g u e z , Venezuela: T he Non-Peaceful

I Path, 304| 7. Colombia: Theses on the Guerrilla Movement, 308

8. A l b e r t o G o m e z , Criteria of Revolutionary Armed Struggle in Colombia, 311

!). J o s e M an u e l F o r t u n y , Revolutionary Tactics in Guatemala, 314

10. J o s e C u e l l o and A sdrubal D o m In q u e z , A Dominican View of the Latin American Revolution, 318

t 11. Luis C o rv a lan , Anti-Imperialist Alliance inj L atin America, 324

i VII. T H E U N IT ED STATES

H e n r y W in s t o n , Revolutionary Struggle for | Afro-American Freedom, 327I

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