Guerrilla Warfare is Che Guevara's own story of the Cuban revolution. It was written in 1960, just after the 1956-59 revolution and, originally intended as a manual for the other guerrilla movements of Latin America, grew into Che's classic account of the motivations and justifications of revolution. The Cuban revolution against the Batista dictatorship was the first blow against American Imperialism, inspiring decades of resistance to the globalisation that now dominates world politics. This is far from being an instruction guide to founding a guerrilla movement, it is a work that sets out the faith necessary for political action, an evocation of Che's own idealism.