I am Action
Subtitle: Literary and Combat Articles, Thoughts, and Revolutionary Chronicles
By: Praxedis G. Guerrero; translated and introduced by Javier Sethness-Castro
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Chico, USA; Edinburgh, UK
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781849353144
Description: Praxedis G. Guerrero was born into a wealthy family in Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1882. While still a young man, he renounced his inheritance, claiming that he would rather earn his meals through manual labor than secure them by exploiting his fellow human beings. Within less than a decade, he was a central figure in the transnational revolutionary network established by the Organizational Council of the Mexican Liberal Party (PLM), which was dedicated to deposing the dictator Porfirio Díaz and promoting anar­chist revolution throughout Mexico. He was killed in battle at the age of twenty-eight in 1910.

Guerrero was also one of the most prolific and talented revolutionary writ­ers of his era, penning numerous articles that were known for both their literary style and their polemical force. In this volume, editor and translator Javier Sethness-Castro has collected a wide range of Guerrero’s work for the newspapers Revolucíon, Punto Rojo, and Regeneracíon, most of them appear­ing for the first time in English. This edition also includes a biographical introduction and helpful annotations throughout.
Notes: Source title: I am Action: Literary and Combat Articles, Thoughts, and Revolutionary Chronicles
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: Translator’s Note
pagenum: 11; label: I.
title: Literary and Combat Articles; title: Justice
pagenum: 14; title: Make Way!
pagenum: 18; title: Listen
pagenum: 20; title: Fighters, Let’s Get to Work!
pagenum: 22; title: Boxer
pagenum: 24; title: Vile Hatreds
pagenum: 26; title: Passivity and Rebellion
pagenum: 28; title: Beggar …
pagenum: 30; title: Women, Whom Do You Love?
pagenum: 31; title: Residents of El Paso
pagenum: 33; title: And Still … You Remain Passive!
pagenum: 35; title: Anniversary
pagenum: 37; title: Wretches!
pagenum: 39; title: Ulúa Speaks
pagenum: 40; title: Impatient Ones
pagenum: 43; title: Something More
pagenum: 45; title: The True Interest of the Bourgeois and the Proletarian
pagenum: 48; title: Blow
pagenum: 51; title: I am Action
pagenum: 53; title: The Purpose of Revolution
pagenum: 55; title: The Inappropriateness of Gratitude
pagenum: 58; title: Darknesses
pagenum: 61; title: Let us Propel Rationalist Education
pagenum: 62; title: Sweet Peace
pagenum: 66; title: Filogonio’s Argument
pagenum: 70; title: Laboring
pagenum: 75; title: Program of the Pan-American Labor League
pagenum: 79; title: The Probable Intervention
pagenum: 84; title: A Friend’s Advice
pagenum: 88; title: The Means and the End
pagenum: 91; title: Women
pagenum: 93; title: Whites, Whites
pagenum: 100; label: II.
title: Thoughts; title: Thoughts
pagenum: 104; title: He is Not Proletarian; He is Bourgeois
pagenum: 106; title: Revolutionary Women
pagenum: 108; title: Flash Points
pagenum: 110; label: III.
title: Revolutionary Chronicles; title: Las Vacas
pagenum: 122; title: Viesca
pagenum: 129; title: Palomas
pagenum: 133; title: The Death of the Heroes
pagenum: 137; label: IV.
title: Magón’s Reminisces; title: Praxedis G. Guerrero Has Died
pagenum: 142; title: Praxedis G. Guerrero
pagenum: 145; title: A Letter from Ricardo Flores Magón
pagenum: 150; title: The Apostle
pagenum: 153; title: A Catastrophe
pagenum: 156