'CHE' ON VIETNAM AND WORLD REVOLUTION New uprisings will occur in these and other American cyuntries, as has now occurred in Bolivia, and these will continue to grow, with all the vicissitudes which this dangerous occupation of the modern revolutionist involves. Many will perish, victims of their own errors, others will fall in the harsh combat that is looming; new battlers and new leaders will arise in the heat of the revolutionary struggle. The people will continue to form their fighters and their leaders within the selective framework of the war itself, and the Yankee agents of repression will increase in number. This is the Vietnamese road; the road which the peoples must follow, the road which the Americas will follow, with the special feature that armed groups can establish something like coordinating committees to make the repressive efforts of Yankee imperialism more difficult and to help their Own CauSee The Americas, a continent forgotten in the latest political struggle for freedom, which is beginning to make itself felt through the Tricontinental by means of the Cuban Revolution which is the voice of the vanguard of its peoples, will undertake a much more outstanding task - the creation of a second or third Vietnam, or the world's second or third Vietnam. Im short, it must be remembered that imperialism is a worldwide system, the final stage of capitalism, and it must be beaten in a worldwide confrontation. This means a long war. And, we repeat it once again, a cruel war. Let no one be mistaken on this when he sets out to initiate it and let no one vacillate in initiating it out of fear of the results which it can draw upon his own people. It is almost the only hope for victory. We cannot evade the need of the hour. Vietnam teaches us this with its permanent lesson in heroism, its tragic daily lesson in struggle and death in order to gain the final victory. Over there, the imperialist troops encounter the discomforts of those accustomed to the standard of living which the North American nation boasts. They have to confront a hostile land, the insecurity of those who cannot move without feeling they are walking on enemy territory; death for those who go outside of fortified redoubts; the permanent hostility of the entire population. All this continues to provoke repercussions inside the United States; it is going to arouse a factor that was attenuated in the days of the full vigor of imperialism the class struggle inside its own territory.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 8, No. 17, c. 26 October 1967
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