Friends of Durruti Group

Friends of Durruti Group
Agrupación de los Amigos de Durruti
SecretaryFélix Martínez
Vice-secretaryJaume Balius i Mir [ca]
Founded15 March 1937 (1937-03-15)
Dissolvedc. 1939 (1939)
Split fromCNT-FAI
HeadquartersBarcelona
NewspaperEl Amigo del Pueblo [es]
IdeologyLibertarian communism
Platformism
Trotskyism (alleged)
Political positionFar-left

The Friends of Durruti Group (Spanish: Agrupación de los Amigos de Durruti) was a Spanish anarchist group commonly known for its participation in the May Days. Named after Buenaventura Durruti, it was founded on 15 March 1937 by Jaume Balius i Mir [ca] and Félix Martínez, who had become disillusioned with the policies of the CNT-FAI's leadership. During the May Days in Barcelona, they actively agitated among the anti-government forces, advocating for the formation of a "revolutionary junta", in close collaboration with Spanish Trotskyists. Following the suppression of the uprising, the group began publishing the newspaper El Amigo del Pueblo, in which they denounced the CNT-FAI for "collaborationism", resulting in their expulsion from the organisation. Their 1938 pamphlet Towards a Fresh revolution, which reaffirmed their proposals for a revolutionary junta, became an influential text within the anarchist current of platformism. But the group ultimately failed to make a broader impact within the Spanish movement and collapsed by the end of the war.