By Agustín Guillamón
Revolutions with no thought fail to make development. We of the 'Friends Of Durruti' have defined our pondering, that could be amended as applicable in nice social upheavals yet which hinges upon crucial issues which can't be kept away from. A application, and rifles.—El Amigo del Pueblo, No. five, July 20, 1937.Spain 1936–1939: this is often the tale of a gaggle of anarchists engaged within the such a lot thoroughgoing social and fiscal revolution of all time. primarily highway combatants with an extended pedigree of militant motion, they used their very own reviews to reach on the best modern research of the Spanish Revolution. In doing so, they laid down crucial markers for all destiny revolutionaries. This study—drawing on interviews with members and synthesizing archival information—is THE definitive textual content on those unsung activists.This quantity is translated, edited, and brought by way of Paul Sharkey, stated across the world because the most desirable specialist at the neighbors Of Durruti staff.
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But at no time did they consti tute a fraction or group, nor did they attempt to infiltrate the Patrols. We cannot characterize the Group as a comprehensively conscious, or ganized group that would undertake methodical activity. It was one of many more or less informal anarchist groups formed around certain characteristic affinities. Nor were they good propagandists or theorists, but instead a group of proletarians alive to an i nsti n ctive need to confront the CNT's policy of appeasement and the accelerating process of counterrevolution.
Propaganda should be carried o u t within t h e CNT, without recourse t o violence. 2 . There should be pressure for trade union (CNT) direction of the economy. 3. The political parties should be pushed aside. 4. No alli ance and no compromise with the forces harboring the counterrevolution, that is, the PSUC and the UGT: The direction of the economy and of society ought to be vested i n the trade union organization [the CNT] , with no p lace for the political parties, on the basis that these do not meet the criteria to be regarded as renovative.
The Group was the confluence of two main currents: the opposition o n the part of a narchist m i l itians from the Durruti Column (and the Iron Colum n ) to m i l i t a r i z a t i o n of t h e p e o p l e ' s m i l i t i a s , a n d the o p p o s i t i o n to governmentalism, best articulated in the writings of Jaime Balius (though not Jaime Balius only) in Solidaridad Obrera between July and November 1 936, i n Ideas, between December 1 936 and April 1 93 7 , and in La Noche b etwe e n M arch and M ay 1 93 7.