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cannot fade the difficulties. or knows that he lacks the patience to wait. then it is better to relinquish lis role before he betrays his pledge, for he clearly lacks the basic qualities necessary to be a guerrilla. How the Urban Guerrilla Lives and Subsists The urban guerrilla must know how to live among the people and must be careful not to appear strange and separated from ordinary city life. He should not wear clothes that are different from those that other people wear. Elaborate and high fashion clothing for men or women may often be a handicap if the urban guerrilla's mission takes him into working class neighborhoods or sections where such dress is uncommon. he same case has to be taken if the “urban guerrilla moves from the South to the North or vice versa. The urban guerrilla must live by his work or professional activity. If he is known and sought by the police. if he is convicted or is on parole. he must go underground and sometimes must live hidden. Under such circumstances. the urban guerrilla cannot reveal his activity to anyone, since that is always and only the responsibility of the revolutionary organization in which he is participating. The urban guerrilla must have a great capacity for observation. must be well informed about everything, principally about the enemy's movements, and must be very searching and knowledgeable about the area in which he lives, operates, or through which he moves. But the fundamental and decisive characteristi¢ of the urban gucr- rilla is that he is a man who fights with arms: given this conditicn, there is very httle likelhocd that he will be able to follow his normal profession tor long without being identified. The role of expropria- tion thus looms as clear as high noon. It is impossible for the urban guerrilla to exist and survive without fighting to expropriate. Thus, within the framework of the class struggle. as st inevitably and necessarily sharpens. the armed struggle of the urban gucrrilla points toward two essential objectives: a) the physical liquidation of the chiefs and assistants of the armed forces and of the police: b) the expropriation of government resources and those belonging to the big capitalists, latifundists. and imperialists, with small ex- propriatidas used for the maintenance of individual urban guerrillas and largd ones for the sustenance of the revolution itself. It is cleft that the armed struggle of the urban guerrilla also has other bbjectives. But here we are referring to the two basic objectives, above all expropriation. [t is necessary for every urban guerrilla to keep in mind always that he can only maintain his existence if he is disposed to kill the polite nd those dedicated to repression, and if he is determined — truly determined — to expro- priate the wealth of the big capitalists. the Jatifundists. and the imperialists. One of the fundamental characteristics of the Brazilian revolution 6 | eA ee