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cd Ae * i & es a ie lee A pte ee ee a Se ae re ee ae ae ee ee - a ooo f fee LSA nntntn tcc pulled | Minimanuai of the Urban Guerriila Carlos Marighella s.Y abating On Tuesday, November 4, 1969. Carlos Morighel!a fell, assassinated in Sio Pauto. On that day, two jives were simulfaneously interrupted: the life of a man who for close to 40 years had becn shaped in opposing reaction, in public or clan- deatine struggle against the dominant system; and that of the urban puerrila hounded by implecable persecution, killed in an ambush just as he is at the point of beginning rural guerritia warfare, the next step in his Jiberation cycle. Marighella had the merit of making valuable contributions to the tevolutionary cause in both theory and practice. During the last years of his life, as a parallel to the action he undertook, he wrote intensively to support his theories about the liberation of Brazil. Among his writings. his Minimanosl] ef the Urban Guerrilia which Triconti- mental offers in its pages, has a special importance. The work examines exhaus- tively the conditions, characteristics, necessilics, and methods of the guerrilla war and the urban guerrillas. broadly demonstrating his sense of detail, of organiza- tion, and his mental clerit¥. It also shows, in passing. that Idarighelia was endowed with inexhaustible confidence and affection for man, end with a youthfulness that negated his 56 years and death. For the experiences it turns over in its pages and for its detailed foresight, the Mtolmanus? of the Urban Goerriila will become one of the principal books of every man who. a1 @ consequence of the inevitable batile against the bour- geoisie and imperialism, takes the road of armed rebellion. ° 1 : ed — Ee ae eee EF RR Se eR oe ee i ar eee ee -_sa + ee a