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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. He was born the son of a railway worker on July 14 th 1896 in Leon, a city in central Spain.

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. He was born the son of a railway worker on July 14th 1896 in Leon, a city in central Spain.

Notes: 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 ...

Buenaventura Durruti was born on July 14 th 1896 in Leon, a mountainous area in central northern Spain. More prosperous than the south, but far less industrialised than Catalonia, it was not, and never has been, an anarchist stronghold like Catalonia or Andalusia.

Death of Durruti. At the beginning of November 1936, Buenaventura Durruti with more than 3,000 people from the column directed themselves to Madrid. At the time the capital of Spain was in grave danger of being overtaken by the fascists and Federica Montseny convinced Durruti to leave Catalonia.

But the man who best embodied the heroism of the working class, its revolutionary tenacity, the spirit of sacrifice and the firm conviction that war and revolution were an indissoluble binomial, was Buenaventura Durruti. Durruti spent his life between prisons and workers’ struggles.

Buenaventura Durruti ( July 14, 1896 – November 20, 1936) was a Spanish -born anarchist, a central figure in Spanish anarchism during the period leading up to and during the Spanish Civil War . Contents 1 Quotes 1.1 Van Paassen interview (1936) 2 Quotes about Durruti 3 External links Quotes [ edit]

Durruti in 1936. 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 .