The Durruti column – Carl Einstein
A posthumous address on Buenaventura Durruti by German anarcho-syndicalist volunteer in the Durruti Column, Carl Einstein. It was broadcasted by the CNT-FAI radio station in Barcelona shortly after Durruti’s death in November 1936, and later published by the Official Propaganda Services of the CNT-FAI in the pamphlet Buenaventura Durruti.
Buenaventura Durruti (1896-1936)
Durruti, Buenaventura, 1896-1936
Une biographie de l’anarchiste espagnol légendaire et combattant de la guerre civile espagnole Buenaventura Durruti.
Réduire en quelques centaines de mots la vie d’une figure mythique n’est pas tâche aisée. Il peut être dit sans peur de se tromper que Buenaventura Durruti a symbolisé, en sa personne, la lutte courageuse des travailleu-se-r-s et des paysan-ne-s de ce pays et a, plus spécifiquement, symbolisé l’esprit de l’anarchisme espagnol.
The brief summer of anarchy: the life and death of Durruti - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s non-fiction “adventure novel” about Buenaventura Durruti and the Spanish anarchist movement (ca. 1917-1937), first published in Germany in 1972, consisting of a more or less chronological “collage” of “translated, abridged and rearranged” excerpts from “reports and speeches, interviews and proclamations … letters, travel narratives, anecdotes, pamphlets, polemics, newspaper articles, autobiographical texts, flyers and propaganda leaflets” (including extensive selections from the eyewitness accounts of Simone Weil, Ilya Ehrenburg, H. E. Kaminski, Mikhail Koltsov, Ricardo Sanz and Jesús Arnal Pena), punctuated by the author’s “Commentaries”.
Buenaventura Durruti interview - Pierre van Paasen
In 1936, after the liberation of Aragon from Franco's forces, leading Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti was interviewed by Pierre van Paasen of the Toronto Star. In this interview he gives his views on Fascism, government and social revolution despite the fact that his remarks have only been reported in English - and were never actually written down by him in his native Spanish - they are worth repeating here.
An Interview with Miguel Amorós – Cazarabet-El Sueño Igualitario
In this 2015 interview, Miguel Amorós discusses his book about Buenaventura Durruti, Durruti in the Labyrinth (2006), the controversies and enigmas surrounding the untimely and mysterious death of this charismatic figure of anarchism, and the impact of his death on the anarchosyndicalist movement in Spain during the civil war, which Amorós says was not dependent on the actions of any single individual, but that his demise demoralized the rank and file of the anarchist movement and reinforced the trend towards bureaucratization in the CNT-FAI by providing those institutions with a martyr for propaganda purposes to rally the masses behind the war and government collaboration.
The Fighting-call. Vol. 1, no. 2
The life style of Buenaventura Durruti
Durruti in the Spanish revolution - Abel Paz
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