by Ernest Mandel Published in New Left Review I/52 , November–December 1968 [Editor’s note:  This article has been reproduced from the Marxist Internet Archive: https://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1968/07/lessons-may68.html . The graphics have been added by me] MMass meeting of workers during occupation of Citroen car plant in France, June 1968 The revolutionary wave of May 1968 constitutes an immense reservoir of social experience. The inventory of this experience is as

The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels [ Publisher’s note:  There were many editions of the manifesto written in different languages and carrying separate prefaces. For the purposes of brevity,  I have chosen only to include the last one. This should allow the reader to see the latest thinking of the author – in this case, Engels – and proceed then to the main body of this momentous work . The footnotes are from the original but I have taken the liberty of add

by Ernesto Che Guevara [ This article was written as a letter to Carlos Quijano, editor of Marcha , a weekly journal published in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was first published in Marcha and then in Verde Olivo , the official journal of the Revotuionary Armed Forces of Cuba, in April 1965.] Dear comrade,  *  : I conclude these notes on a trip through Africa, motivated by the desire to fulfill, albeit belatedly, my promise. I would like to do so by addressing the topic in the