Buenaventura Durruti
José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange (14 July 1896 – 20 November 1936) was a Spanish anarchist leader. He was born in the town of León. Durruti was a central figure of Spanish anarchism during the country's civil war of 1936-1939.[1] He fought against fascism.
He robbed banks to use the money to help his friends escape prison.[2] It is believed that he killed the bishop Juan Soldevilla. Some anarchists believed Soldevilla helped people who murdered people in labor unions.
He died in Madrid when he was killed by a person using a gun during the Spanish Civil War.
Durruti (left) during his exile in Occitania
King Alfonso XIII, who Durruti and Los Justicieros attempted to assassinate in 1920
CNT leader Salvador Seguí, whose assassination triggered the outbreak of open conflict between anarchists and the pistoleros
Durruti after his arrest in Madrid in 1923
Alfonso XIII (left) and Miguel Primo de Rivera (right), the two leading figures of the dictatorship in Spain
Durruti (centre), with Francisco Ascaso (left) and Gregorio Jover (right), after their release from prison in 1927
Nestor Makhno, the Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary who met with Ascaso and Durruti after their release from prison
Ascaso and Durruti (far-right) at the Poble Espanyol, with other Spanish and French anarchists
References
- ↑ Joseph, Paul, ed. (12 October 2016). "Anarchism". The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. p. 63. ISBN 9781483359885. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
Durruti is remembered as a hero, an anarchist militant, and a revolutionary armed fighter against fascism, willing to wage war to foster a worker-controlled anarchist society.
- ↑ The Hiddens Wanderings of Durruti