At the 6th Congress of the PCE held in Prague between January 28–31, 1960, 65-year-old Ibárruri ceded the post of secretary-general to Carrillo and accepted the honorary position of president. As confirmation of her retirement from active politics she wrote her first memoir in 1960. The book, entitled "El Unico Camino" ("The Only Way") was published first in Paris in 1962. The following year it was printed in Moscow. The book was translated into English and published in New York in 1966 under a new title. In her second memoir, "Memorias de Pasionaria, 1939–1977", Ibárruri observates that the childhood reminiscences recorded in "El Unico Camino" came to her in sharp detail.