Throughout Che Guevara Talks to Young People, readers will come across references to historical events, speeches, and individuals that may be unfamiliar. The following are suggestions for further reading.  
 

Castro, Fidel, "The Case of Cuba Is the Case of All Underdeveloped Countries," Speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, September 26, 1960. In To Speak the Truth: Why Washington's 'Cold War' against Cuba Doesn't End (Pathfinder, 1992).

Castro, Fidel, "History Will Absolve Me," Castro's 1953 courtroom defense speech explaining the political and social goals of the revolutionary struggle, which became the program of the July 26 Movement. In Fidel Castro's Political Strategy (Pathfinder, 1987).

Castro, Fidel, "Against Bureaucracy and Sectarianism," March 26, 1962, televised speech explaining the correction of practices in the functioning of the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI) that, if allowed to continue, would have alienated broad layers of peasants and workers from the party. In Selected Speeches of Fidel Castro (Pathfinder, 1979).

Guevara, Ernesto Che, Socialism and Man in Cuba (Pathfinder, 1989).

Guevara, Ernesto Che, Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1956-58 (Pathfinder, 1996).

Guevara, Ernesto Che, "At the Afro-Asian Conference," February 24, 1965, speech to a meeting of the Organization of Afro-Asian Solidarity in Algiers. In Che Guevara Speaks (Pathfinder, 1967).

Guevara, Ernesto Che, "Voluntary Work Is a School for Communist Consciousness," a speech given August 15, 1964, and "Planning and Consciousness in the Transition to Socialism ('On the Budgetary Finance System')." In Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution: Writings and Speeches of Ernesto Che Guevara (Pathfinder, 1987).

Guevara, Ernesto Che, "On the Concept of Value" and "The Meaning of Socialist Planning." In New International no. 8.

Lenin, V.I., writings and speeches on the national and colonial question. In Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920 (Pathfinder, 1991); and To See the Dawn, Baku 1920: First Congress of the Peoples of the East (Pathfinder, 1993).

Lenin, V.I., Lenin's Final Fight: Speeches and Writings, 1922-23 (Pathfinder, 1995).

Marx, Karl, Critique of the Gotha Program (International Publishers, 1966).

Marx, Karl, "Theses on Feuerbach," and Engels, Frederick, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy. In the Selected Works of Marx and Engels (Lawrence & Wishart, 1991).

The Second Declaration of Havana with The First Declaration of Havana. The September 1960 First Declaration of Havana was issued in response to the Declaration of San José, Costa Rica—the U.S. government-engineered condemnation of revolutionary Cuba by the Organization of American States.

The February 1962 Second Declaration of Havana is a call for revolutionary struggle by workers and peasants across the Americas. Each declaration was approved by acclamation at a rally of more than one million in Havana (Pathfinder, 1994).  
 
 
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