For the liberation of Brazil (The Pelican Latin American Library)

Carlos Marighela

Penguin Books

1971

180 páginas

6h 0m

ISBN-10: 0140213414

For the liberation of Brazil is a collection of writings by the man who, more than any other, shifted guerrilla opposition to Brazil's fascist regime into the towns. A few weeks after one of his ALN commandos had kidnapped the American Ambassador in 1969, Carlos Marighela himself was shot and killed by the police . Until 1967 he had been an osthodox and leading communist in São Paulo but turned heretic to fight against the starvation, unemployment, terror and repression prevailing under the Brazilian dictatorship.
For the most part practical and non-doctrinal, Marighela's papers (which were instantly banned when they appeared in France) can be read as a handbook for Latin American guerrilla fighters and demonstrate how the struggle has developed since the death of Che Guevara. This collection is introduced by Richard Gott.