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.
Towards a Fresh Revolution - Friends of Durruti
Highly influential pamphlet of anarcho-syndicalist CNT militants during the Spanish Civil War who opposed the co-option of their organisation in the Republican government.
Workers Power and the Spanish Revolution - Tom Wetzel
Tom Wetzel's historical article and analysis of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, and in particular the activities of the Spanish anarchists within it. In text and PDF format.
Available here as a PDF.
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 Buenaventura 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 Buenaventura 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
