Buenaventura Durruti

1937: Speech by Juan García Oliver

Submitted by Reddebrek on Nov 22 2021 19:19

Short filmed speech delivered at some point in 1937. Oliver talks about Buenaventura Durruti and several over Anarchists who had been killed in combat, and the history of the CNT's Action groups.

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.

Collectives in the Spanish Revolution - by Gaston Leval (2018 Updated & Improved Edition)

A new, updated, and improved edition of a classic of anarcho-syndicalist economics -- a detailed eyewitness and analysis of the successes and struggles of a libertarian socialist economy

Durruti en la labirinto - Miguel Amorós

Biografio pri la vivo de 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

Submitted by Alias Recluse on Mar 26 2017 21:58

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

Submitted by Steven. on Aug 5 2016 17:16

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

Submitted by Alias Recluse on Apr 5 2015 21:13

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.