    josÃ© buenaventura durruti dumange (14 july 1896 &ndash; 20 november 1936) was an anarcho-syndicalist militant involved with the cnt, fai and other anarchist organisations during the period leading up to and including the spanish civil war. durruti played an influential role during the spanish revolution and is remembered as a hero in the anarchist movement. == biography ==  ===early life=== durruti was born in leÃ³n, spain, son of anastasia dumangue and santiago durruti, a railway worker in the yard at leon who described himself as a libertarian socialist. buenaventura was the second of eight brothers (one was killed in the october 1934 uprising in the asturias, another died fighting the fascists on the madrid front). in 1910, aged 14, durruti left school to become a trainee mechanic in the railway yard in leÃ³n. like his father, he joined the socialist uniÃ³n general de trabajadores (ugt). he took an active part in the strike of august 1917 called by the ugt when the government overturned an agreement between the union and the employers. the government brought in the spanish army to suppress the strike; they killed 70 people and injured more than 500 workers. 2,000 of the strikers were imprisoned without trial or legal process. durruti managed to escape, but had to flee abroad to france where he came into contact with exiled anarchists. the brutality of the spanish state had a profound and lasting effect on the young durruti. from the autumn of 1917 until the beginning of 1920, durruti worked in paris as a mechanic. he then decided to return to spain and arrived at san sebastian, basque country, just across the border. here, he was introduced to local anarchists such as suberviola, ruiz, aldabatrecu or marcelino del campo, with whom he formed the anarchist paramilitary group los justicieros ("the avengers"). in 1921, during the inauguration of the great kursaal in san sebastian, members of this group attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate king alfonso xiii. shortly after buenasca, the then president of the recently formed anarchist controlled confederacion nacional del trabajo (cnt), persuaded durruti to go to barcelona to organise the worker
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