Foreword by Harry "Pombo" Villegas
Che Guevara’s classic text on revolutionary tactics and strategy.
Since Guerrilla Warfare was first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries alike. In this book, Che Guevara outlines the lessons he learned as a guerrilla soldier in the Cuban revolution and explains how a small group of dedicated fighters grew in strength with the support of the Cuban people, overcoming the odds to vanquish the US-backed dictator’s army and overthrow the dictatorship.
Guerrilla Warfare is both an insightful account of one of the decisive revolutionary movements of the twentieth century and a timeless resource for freedom fighters the world over. This edition includes Che’s corrections and his suggestions for further revisions to the text—revisions his murder in 1967 prevented him from making.
Announcing SEVEN STORIES x OCEAN PRESS
Seven Stories Press to become exclusive publisher of Ocean Press books in English and Spanish outside of Cuba
The partnership between two leading international presses is announced 54 years after Che Guevara’s death.
New York, NY, May 6, 2021 — Ocean Press and Seven Stories Press jointly announced today a unique partnership for the promotion of Ocean Press and Ocean Sur (Spanish-language) titles in North America and around the world. The legendary Ocean, founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 1989 by the team of David Deutschmann and Deborah Shnookal, has created one of the world’s foremost publishing programs of Latin American politics and culture. Deutschmann approached Seven Stories publisher Dan Simon about forming a partnership for the distribution of the Ocean lists, both in English and in Spanish, throughout North America and around the world.
“I only approached Seven Stories because, one, I knew I could trust them, and two, our publishing programs aligned perfectly due to our shared commitment to politics and literature.”
The focus initially will be on the complete works of Che Guevara in newly redesigned editions, with authoritative text created by Ocean together with the Che Guevara Studies Center of Havana, whose director is Aleida March, Guevara’s partner. Seven Stories will release the complete backlist of nine titles, at the rate of roughly one a month, starting with The Motorcycle Diaries in July 2021, featuring a new introduction by Walter Salles, the director of the acclaimed film based on the book. In September 2021, the first new Che Guevara title will appear, I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947–1967. Eighty percent of the letters in this first-ever collection of Che Guevara’s letters have never before appeared in English.
Seven Stories publisher Dan Simon said: “Despite Che’s icon status, the world has yet to really get to know him. His passion is extraordinary, and so is his optimism. Our job is really to just do whatever we can to encourage people everywhere to take a deeper look. I’m very grateful to Deb and David for trusting us with bringing Che and the many other important authors and series they publish back into wider circulation.”
Besides the roll out in the US this coming summer and fall, Seven Stories rights director Silvia Stramenga has negotiated partnerships for foreign rights to many of the Che Guevara titles, including with Penguin Classics in England, and many other publishers around the world, as well as deals with Audible for both English and Spanish audiobooks. She is also fielding film rights inquiries.
Seven Stories books, including those in English and Spanish in the Ocean-Seven Stories partnership, are sold and distributed by Penguin Random House in North America and worldwide, and through Seven Stories UK by Turnaround in England.
Seven Stories Press is the American independent publisher of many voices of conscience and literary authors including Kurt Vonnegut, Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, Barry Gifford, Greg Palast, Nelson Algren, Octavia Butler, the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, Ralph Nader, Project Censored, Howard Zinn, Innosanto Nagara, Cory Silverberg, and Human Rights Watch, among many others. Seven Stories publishes books for adults in English, and in Spanish under the Siete Cuentos imprint, and books for children under the Triangle Square Books for Young Readers imprint.
The Ocean Press list includes a deep catalogue of books by Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton, among many others. Together with the Pablo Neruda Foundation and the Foundation Guayasamín, Ocean published a bilingual edition of selections of Neruda’s most famous epic poem “Canto General” illustrated by the Ecuadoran indigenous artist Oswaldo Guayasamín. In 2006, Ocean began a new Spanish-language imprint, Ocean Sur. In collaboration with his family, Ocean has published the collected works in 15 volumes of one of Latin America’s most famous rebel poets, Roque Dalton. Other highlights of Ocean’s Spanish list include John Reed’s eyewitness accounts of the Russian and Mexican revolutions, key Marxist classics, works by notable liberation theologists of Latin America such as Frei Betto, Miguel d’Escoto and Camilo Torres, and two series: Vidas Rebeldes (Rebel Lives) and Historias desde abajo (History from Below).
For further information about foreign, film, or audio rights, contact Silvia Stramenga at silvia@
For further information regarding Ocean Press or Seven Stories Press, contact Ruth Weiner at ruth@sevenstories.com.
ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA is profoundly radicalized when, as a young doctor traversing Latin America for the second time, a journey he later describes in Latin America Diaries/Otra Vez, he witnesses first the Bolivian Revolution, and then, in Guatemala, the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Jacobo Árbenz by U.S.-backed forces. After escaping to Mexico, Guevara meets up with a group of Cuban revolutionaries exiled in Mexico City led by Fidel Castro and immediately enlists in their planned expedition to overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. The Cubans nickname him "Che," a popular form of address in his native Argentina. The group sets sail for Cuba on November 25, 1956, aboard the yacht Granma, with Che as the group's doctor. Within several months, Fidel appoints him a commander of the Rebel Army, though he also continues to minister to wounded guerrilla fighters and captured Batista soldiers.
After General Batista flees Cuba on January 1st, 1959, Che becomes one of the key leaders of the new revolutionary government. He is also the most important representative of the Cuban Revolution internationally, heading numerous delegations and earning a reputation as a passionate and articulate spokesperson for Third World peoples. In April 1965, Che leaves Cuba to lead a guerrilla mission of some 200 Cuban soldiers to support the revolutionary struggle in Congo, a mission he recounts in Congo Diary. The book is characterized by Che's brutal, disciplined honesty, as he recounts the succession of failures and dead ends that characterized the mission, analyzing each one, and never losing sight of his innate optimism and clarity of mission. After returning to Cuba in December 1965, Che prepares another guerrilla force, this time to Bolivia, where he arrives in November 1966 with a small guerrilla force, intending to challenge the country's military dictatorship. He is captured there by U.S.-trained counterinsurgency forces on October 8, 1967, and murdered in cold blood the next day. His Bolivian diaries were later edited and published as The Bolivian Diary/El Diario de Che en Bolivia. Che's other works include Reminisces of the Cuban Revolutionary War/Pasajes de la Guerra Revolucionaria, I embrace you with all my revolutionary fervor/Te abraza con todo fervor revolucionario, and The Motorcycle Diaries/Diarios de Motocicleta. More of his political writings are collected in the Che Guevara Reader/Che Guevara Presente.
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