Friends of Durruti

The Friends of Durruti Group (in Spanish, Agrupación de los Amigos de Durruti) was an anarchist Spanish group, founded on March 15, 1937. The group edited the newspaper El Amigo del Pueblo (The Friend of the People) from May 1937 to February 1938.

The group took its name from the noted CNT militant Buenaventura Durruti.

Pérez Navarro, Joaquín, 1907-2006

A short biography of Spanish anarchist and last surviving member of the Friends of Durruti, Joaquín Pérez Navarro.

In the late 1980s I attended a film in London about the achievements of anarchism and the Spanish civil war. At one point the elderly man sitting next to me began weeping quietly. Suddenly, the passion and the conviction of those events and commitments became manifest.

Durruti, Buenaventura, 1896-1936

A biography of legendary Spanish anarchist and Civil War fighter Buenventura Durruti.

To reduce to a few hundred words the life story of an almost mythic figure is not an easy task. It can be said, without fear of exaggeration, that Buenventura Durruti symbolised in his person the courageous struggle of workers and peasants in that country, and more specifically symbolises the spirit of Spanish anarchism.

Jaime Balius and The Friends of Durruti

An account by Pablo Ruiz of his contact and activity with Jaime Balius in the Spanish Civil War and Friends of Durruti group, written after Balius's death in 1981

Balius Mir, Jaime, 1904-1980

A short biography of Spanish anarchist, civil war fighter and editor of the Friends of Durruti paper, Jaime Balius.

Jaime Balius Mir
Born 1904 - Barcelona, Spain, died 13 December 1980 - France

Friends of Durruti