The band is a project of guitarist and occasional pianist vini reilly who is often accompanied by bruce mitchell on drums and keir stewart on bass, keyboards and harmonica. It was founded on 15 march 1937, by jaime balius, felix martinez and pablo ruiz. Mike davis, author of planet of slums ak press has commissioned an elegant, new and unabridged translation of the definitive biography of spanish revolutionary and military strategist. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. The friends of durruti groups document towards a fresh revolution. Columna durruti, with about 6,000 people, was the largest anarchist column or military unit formed during the spanish civil war. During the first months of the war, it became the most recognized and popular military organisation fighting against franco, and it is a symbol of the spanish anarchist movement and its struggle to create an egalitarian society with. His courageous life came to an end in november of that same year. Dejo las colectivizaciones y muchas esperanzas truncadas. Durruti played an influential role during the spanish revolution and is remembered as a hero in the anarchist movement. Jose buenaventura durruti dumange 14 july 1896 20 november 1936 was a spanish.
They were among the first acts signed to factory records by label founder tony wilson. Jose buenaventura durruti dumange 14 july 1896 20 november 1936 was a spanish insurrectionary, anarchosyndicalist militant involved with the cnt, fai and other anarchist organisations during the period leading up to and including the spanish civil war. Sep 27, 2006 durruti embodied the feelings and goals of the workers in arms, being a peculiar chief whose main privilege was to fight in the first line and whose only rank was the esteem his equals had for him. A vivid biographical sketch of joaquin perez 19072006, based on a manuscript he wrote during the last few years of his life, who joined the cnt at the age of sixteen in the early 1920s, and was, successively, a specialist in the cnts defense committees in barcelona during the 1930s, a militiaman in the durruti column during the first months of the civil war, one of the original members.
The durutti column are an english postpunk band formed in 1978 in manchester, england. The linked data service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the library of congress. Abel pazs magnificent biography resurrects the very soul of spanish anarchism. Durruti era considerato una figura importante di quella fai che attacco duramente il corso legalistico della cnt guidata da macia. Suo padre e i suoi sette fratelli sono operai della ferrovia. Durruti ha muerto, pero esta vivo todavia biblioteca anarquista.