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Che Guevara T-Shirts

Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a symbol of revolutionaries and revolutionary thought around the world. These designs are meant to inspire, not inflame. As El Che said himself:
"Let me say, with the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love."
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If you would like to learn more about Che Guevara, please visit the books and video sections below. Also, see the Wikipedia entry on Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Guevara has always been a controversial figure, though he remained relatively unknown to most Americans until the early 70's [ more ...]


Che Guevara Shirts

Classic Che Guevara on red
Classic Che Guevara
Red T-shirt

Black - "Resist Oppression"

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Guerilla Heroico, olive shirt
Guerilla, Che Guevara
Olive T-Shirt
Che Guevara star cuba t-shirt
Che Guevara, Cuban Flag T-shirt
Grey on black, with motto:
Hasta la victoria siempre
Che Guevara Baseball Jersey
Che Guevara
Baseball Jersey
Red Square Che Guevara Tshirt
Red Square Che Guevara
Black T-shirt

Sepia Che Smoking

$18.00

Grey Che Tshirt

$18.00

Black - Red Star Face

$18.00

White - Red box

$18.00

Green - Viva La Revolucion

$18.00

Green - Distressed Tshirt

$18.00

Green - Photo Box

$18.00

Black - Che w/Red glow

$18.00

White - Classic 2

$18.00
Classic Che Guevara on red
Che Guevara
Long Sleeve T-shirts

Red Hoody

$45.00
Che Guevara - Hasta la victoria siempre (black)
Che Guevara
Hasta la victoria siempre

Long sleeve, black

Che Red LetterT-shirt

Burning Black T-shirt

Che Red Circle T-shirt
Che Guevara At Ease T-shirt
Che Guevara
"At Ease" T-shirts
  Che Guevara Halo Tee
Che Guevara Halo
Distressed T-shirts

chocolate brown / dark khaki

Che Guevara Collectibles

Che Guevara Collectibles
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Collector's items, stamps, hats, shirts, bandanas, and more ...
Black Fitted Cap
$29.99
  Green Adjustable Cap
$24.99
El Che, Canvas Messenger Bag
Che Guevara Canvas
Messenger Bag
El Che, Canvas Messenger Bag
Che Guevara Red Star
Courrier Bag

Che Guevara Posters

Che Guevara

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Che Guevara - La Havane, Cuba 1963

Che Guevara - La Havane, Cuba 1963
Burri, Rene
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Che Guevara - Revolucion

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Che Guevara

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Burri, Rene
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Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre

Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre
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Che Guevara - Burning

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Che Guevara -Classic Red

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Che Guevara, 1960

Che Guevara, 1960
Korda, Alberto
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Che Guevara - Horses

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Che Guevara - Estrella Revolucion

Che Guevara - Estrella Revolucion
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1970's Che Guevara Advertising Poster

1970's Che Guevara Advertising Poster
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Revolutionaries

Revolutionaries
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Viva La Revolucion

Viva La Revolucion
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Sculpture of Che Guevara in the Plaza de la Revolucion, Havana, Cuba

Sculpture of Che Guevara in the Plaza de la Revolucion, Havana, Cuba
Charlotte Hindle
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Sculpture of Che Guevara in the Plaza de la Revolucion, Havana, Cuba

Sculpture of Che Guevara in the Plaza de la Revolucion, Havana, Cuba
Charlotte Hindle
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Che Guevara - Revolucion

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Women's: Che Guevara - Portrait

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Che Guevara Books

The Motorcycle Diaries Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries
The story of Che Guevara's motorcycle journey around South America, told in his own words (original title, Notas de Viaje). If you travelled in your youth, or as a hungry student (or plan to), you'll probably recognize a lot of yourself in Che. As a young medical student, he uses his skills to barter for food and lodgings, meet new people, and see the world. He and his travelling buddy Alberto keep finding new and inventive ways to keep themselves and their motorcycle running and on the road! Che's enthusiasm and idealism is tangible, and contageous. Viva la Poderosa!

This book was adapted into the film Diarios de motocicleta, aka Motorcycle Diaries, by director Walter Salles.

Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
One of my favourite books. Patrick Symmes embarks on a modern-day motorcycle journey tracing Guevara's 1952 route through Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Cuba. During his travels Symmes encounters many people who knew Che or met him during his own journey. Anyone who has travelled abroad will enjoy the details; trouble finding lodgings, amazing coincidences, and the remarkable kindness of strangers who help him along the way.
Guerilla Warfare
Probably Che's most famous work, Guerilla Warfare is full of insight and rich in historical context. This particular version has a great introduction and also includes Che's Guerrilla Warfare: A Method and Message to the Tricontinental. The works are inspiring, and many parallels can be drawn between true guerilla warfare and our daily struggles against arrogant capitalists and huge multinationals. Along those lines, I also strongly recommend Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Che Guevara Video

Motorcycle Diaries DVD Motorcycle Diaries  DVD
Released in 2004, this movie stays true to Guevara's own book, Notas de Viaje, which chronicled his motorcycle journey through South America. This is a very moving and enjoyable film -- and not without a sense of humour. If you read the book, you know why.

Before completing his medical exams, Che and his friend Alberto buy a 1939 Norton motorcycle in bad need of repair, and set out on it together to see the Americas before they get old. The casting and cinematography are excellent. Spanish with English subtitles.

Biography: Che Guevara Biography: Che Guevara: Restless Revolutionary  VHS
This is the recent A&E: Biographyon the life of Che Guevara, running 50 minutes in length. As with the other tapes in this series, this is a very high quality biography; with excellent research, interviews, news footage, and even some rare home movie footage. It explores Guevara's guerilla campaigns, his writings, speeches, and his missions into Africa and Bolivia, where he would ultimately be captured and executed at the age of 39.
El Che: Investigating a Legend El Che: Investigating A Legend  DVD, also VHS
This is one of the best film biographies on the political and military life of Che Guevara, containing lots of original footage, interviews with friends and associates (including Col. "Benigno" Ramirez, who served with Che right up to his assassination in Bolivia), and even the famous Carlos Puebla "Hasta Siempre, Commandante" song. Contains lots of black and white footage of Che's speeches.
Ernesto Che Guevara, The Bolivian Diary - VHS
This is a documentary that retraces el Che's steps during his ill-fated 1967 attempt to liberate Bolivia. Passages from Che's diary are read by the narrator as we travel through the countryside, interviewing Bolivians who met Che during his eleven month campaign. Che's constant battle with asthma, his relationship with the mysterious Tania, his distress at the death of comrades, and his betrayal by local peasants are retold. English and Spanish with English subtitles.
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It seems most popular criticism comes from people who know little or nothing about Che, and is directed at people they in turn think know little or nothing about him but wear his image. Their cynicism and criticism is best understood in the light of what they see as an affront to mindless conservative commercialism. Images with real meaning, such as a Che T-shirt, are seen as ironic and inappropriate when compared to Budweiser and Calvin Klein T-shirts. The latter have no real meaning and are simply banal consumer products, and thus "safe" to wear. Consumerists fail to understand the usefulness of wearing one's beliefs "on one's sleeve", so to speak. Fashion is a dictum to those people

Most critics of the controversial Che T-shirt are also embarrassed by the reminder that Che fought against both the world's superpowers (US and USSR), toppling puppet fascist and totalitarian regimes that they had created. Both "communist" and "capitalist" foreign policy at the time involved kidnapping, torture, murder and political assassination to further their ends. Not only did Che manage to survive several CIA and special forces attempts to kill him and destroy his country, he also worked tirelessly to increase wages and literacy amongst his people. All in the face of sanctions and mounting pressures from the "superpowers" which cut supplies and trade, making the job that much harder. The Che t-shirt is a reminder that the U.S. used covert operations, trade embargos, and supported terrorism against many states trying to free themselves from exploitation.

Some critics view his work as proof that he was "anti-capitalist"; that wearing a T-shirt with his image on it is laughable. But this is simply self-serving nonsense. If you read Guevara's books, you'll see that he and Castro were far more centrist than the US or Russia at the time. Telling someone they can't buy a T-shirt bearing the image of someone who criticizes capitalism is awfully convenient for capitalists. They don't want capitalism questioned. They want to forget these people and their criticisms and they'll say anything to have their way.

The truth is that, as a man who eschewed awards and glory, Guevara might be embarrassed by all the attention today. But he certainly wouldn't be against selling something that might help promote international brotherhood or the advancement of the common people. The critics will be surprised to know that, early on, Guevara was full of hope for a union between all the Americas -- North, Central and South America -- and often referred to himself plainly as "an American". But then, it's always easy to criticize others when you know nothing about them. It's easy to make up your mind when you don't have any real information. To those people, I suggest they ask questions first. I suggest they read a book.


My Che T-shirt

I guess I was 17 when I first heard about Che Guevara, and it was a year or two before I bought a copy of "Guerilla Warfare". The more I heard about him, the more impressed I was. At that time, there wasn't much information available about the man, it being before the World Wide Web was invented. Hardly anyone knew who he was, and the now famous Che Guevara t-shirts were extremely rare.

Actually, they're still extremely rare today.

But I had a funny experience last St-Patricks day, when I put on my Che shirt (it being the only thing green I had to wear). People asked me if I was wearing anything green for St-Pat's, so I pulled up my sweater to reveal my olive green Che shirt underneath. "Oh, you've got one of those," they said, "those are everywhere these days."

Everywhere?

You mean like DKNY, Nike, Coca-Cola, Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, etc? I've never heard anyone say "Oh, you've got one of those" to someone in a "Just do it" or "No Fear" t-shirt, or anything sporting a corporate brand.

So I ignored the comment and told them that my shirt was doubly relevant because, not only was it green, but Che was Irish. Ya, most people don't know that, but his grandmother was a Lynch. His full name is Ernesto Guevara Lynch de la Serna. In fact, there's an interesting story about Che visiting a pub in Ireland (Limerick, 1965), quaffing a few brews and telling a local newspaper reporter about his heritage and his admiration of the Irish people ... and rugby. Che had the reputation of never drinking back home, but that was part of the mythology that surrounded him. If you ever read his "Motorcycle Diaries", you'd know that he liked to drink.

It seems that the problem people have with seeing Che shirts "everywhere" is not so much with the frequency of seeing the shirts -- since we all see hundreds of other shirts hundreds of times more frequently -- but the fact that this shirt actually has some meaning. It represents something important. Though most people don't know exactly what that is.

There are a lot of right-wing fanatics out there whose jowels wobble and froth with anger at the very mention of the name, let alone sight of the man. And I suppose there's an equal number of left-wing pontifs who sing his praises as though he were a god. But to me, the power and greatness of Che is in his humanity; the fact that he worked so hard and gave up so much to free his people from tyranny.

I guess one of the main reasons people have such a strong reaction to his image is that the United States' foreign policy is in no small part responsible for his death. The Che t-shirt is a constant reminder of the U.S.'s policy of establishing puppet dictatorships throughout the world and fighting covert wars on foreign soil in an attempt to destabilize other nations and gain power. It's an offensive and painful thought to intelligent people. All the more painful because it was us.

Actually, current policy isn't that much different, is it? To a certain extent, it still is us. Citizens and foreign nationals are still subject to detention, incarceration, and even torture without representation. People who criticize Guevara for having fought a bloody war need to remind themselves that he was fighting to free himself from a dictator, and fighting against both the world's superpowers (U.S. and U.S.S.R.) for the freedom of his people. What kind of a war would be justified if the CIA was actively trying to kill you?

So, some people call Guevara a murderer, though his targets were all military, and he fought against a regime that was backed by foreign money and troops, which subjugated his own people. I guess these are the same people who supported George Bush; a man who never saw combat himself (actively avoiding service, unlike Guevara), a man who has raided the treasury, enriched his closest friends, denied his own citizens Constitutional and human rights, signed documents condoning torture, and executed more prisoners during peace time than any other governor in the history of the country.

For people who think the only way to show you love your country is to blindly follow its dictators, the image of Che Guevara on a shirt is a frightening one and there will always be too many of them in circulation. For those who think you show your love for your country by striving to improve it day in and day out, by exposing our faults and working them out, by celebrating our compassion and requiring accountability, the Che shirt is all too rare.

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