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RE EAR ARPA TERS 3 > { ! Co abarting ‘ parks Minimanuai of the Urban Guerriila Carlos Marighella ew On Tuesday, November §, 1969, Carlos Morighel!a fell, assassinated in Séo Pauto. On that day, two lives were simultaneously interrupted: the life of a man who for close to 40 years had been shaped in opposing reaction, in public or clan- destine struggle against the dominant system; and that of the urban fuerriila hounded by implecable persecution, killed in an ambush just as he is at the point of beginning rurul guerritta warfare, the next step in his }iberation cycle. Marighella had the merit of making valuable contributions to the tevelutionary 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 Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilia which Tricenti- nental offers in its pages, has a special importance. The work examines exhau! tively the conditions, characteristics, necessilics, and methods of the guerri war and the urban guerrillas. broadly demonstrating his sense of cetail, of organiza- tion, and his mental clerity. It also shows, in passing. that Marighella was endowed wiih inexhaustible confidence and affection for man, end with a youthfulness that negated his 58 years and death. For the experiences it turns over in its pages and for {ts detailed foresight, the Mivimanus! of the Urban Goerrilla will become one of the principal books of every man who, a @ consequence of the inevitable battle against the bour- gecisie and imperialism, takes the road of armed rebellion. . 1 he Dn ee et eee poe .