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Buenaventura Durruti

[This month is the 40 anniversary of the Durruti's death, and the late July was 100 years of his birth. For remember him, the Colectivo Plum(A) and the venezuelan anarchists send you this text - in english and spanish - about that man and his fight. // Este mes se cumplen 40 anhos de la muerte de Durruti, y en julio pasado fue el centenario de su nacimiento. Para recordarle, el Colectivo Plum(A) y los anarquistas venezolanos les envian este texto - en ingles y castellano - acerca de ese hombre y su lucha.] [Thanks to Luis for the english translation] *** GETTING TO KNOW DURRUTI *** To condense in a few lines the life story of he who was the true expression of rebelliousness and anarchist utopia is a complicated but necessary task, because the testimony of liberty in struggle that was the life of Buenaventura Durruti must be broadcast yesterday, today and always. He was born the second of eight brothers on July 14 1896 in Leon, city of the Spanish province by the same name. As an adolescent he is initiated on the same path as his father, a workingman affiliated with the socialist union UGT. As a member of his railroad section, he takes active part in the revolutionary general strike of August 1917, promoted in conjunction with the anarchosyndicalist Confederacio'n Nacional del Trabajo (CNT); which caused his being expelled fron the UGT for being too radical, his persecution by the police and his escape to France, where he comes in contact with exiled anarchists, joining CNT of Asturias upon his return in January 1919. He joins the open fight against the aggresive employers in the Asturian mines and is arrested for the first time in March 1919; he escapes and by December he is in San Sebastian, an industrial city in the Basque country, with a job as a metal worker. The bourgeoisie was then promoting a wave of assasinations of syndicalists and Durruti joins a self-defense group - Los Justicieros, they plan a sensational hit in reprisal: an attempt on the life of King Alfonso XIII who would be visiting the

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