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Buenaventura Durruti was a Spanish anarchist who lived from 1896 to 1936 and became a prominent figure in the anarchist movement during a time of social upheaval in Spain. He matters historically because he played a significant role in anarchist resistance and activities during Spain's turbulent early twentieth century, particularly during the Spanish Civil War era.
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- 1896
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- 1936
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- Collectives in Spain
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- Assassinating Franco — Self2016
- Spain 1936 — Archive footage1937
- La Colonne Durruti1936
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José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange ( Spanish: [xoˈse βwenaβenˈtuɾa ðuˈruti ðuˈmaŋge]; 14 July 1896 – 20 November 1936) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist militant and a leading figure in Spanish anarchism before and during the Spanish Civil War. As a prominent member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI), Durruti was a key participant in the Spanish Revolution of 1936, and is remembered as a hero and martyr by the anarchist movement.
Originally a mechanic and trade unionist from León, Durruti was radicalized by state repression of the labor movement. In the 1920s, he became a leader of the anarchist affinity group Los Solidarios, which carried out bank robberies, termed "expropriations", to fund their revolutionary activities, as well as assassinations of those they held responsible for the oppression of the working class. Forced into exile, he coordinated militant activities from France and engaged in a series of expropriations across Latin America with the group Los Errantes. After returning to Spain with the proclamation of the Republic in 1931, he became one of the primary organizers of the CNT's insurrectionist wing, leading several unsuccessful uprisings for which he was repeatedly imprisoned and deported.