Los Justicieros, ''"The Avengers"'', was an
anarchist paramilitary group created in 1920 in
San Sebastián,
Basque Region, during the years of
pistolerismo
''Pistolerismo'' refers to the practice used by Spanish employers during the late Restoration of hiring thugs to face and often kill trade unionists and notable workers – and vice versa, most notably present in Barcelona.
Background
Pistol ...
. The group was created by
Buenaventura Durruti
José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange (14 July 1896 – 20 November 1936) was a Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant involved with the CNT and FAI in the periods before and during the Spanish Civil War. Durruti played an in ...
, Suberviola, Ruiz, Aldabatrecu and Marcelino del Campo among others. In 1921, during the inauguration of the Great Kursaal in San Sebastian, members of this group attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate
King Alfonso XIII.
The group was succeeded by
Los Solidarios
Los Solidarios (“Solidarity”), also known as Crisol (“Crucible”), was a Spanish anarchist armed-struggle group founded in 1922 in Barcelona, as a reply to the dirty war strategy used by the employers and government against trade unions. ...
, another anarchist armed group.
Bibliography
* Bookchin (Murray). ''Los anarquistas españoles: los años heroicos, 1868-1936''. Faximil Edicions Digitals. 2000. 457p.
* de Paz (Pedro). ''El hombre que mató a Durruti''. Literaturas Comunicacion SL. 2011.
* Paz (Abel). ''Durruti in the Spanish Revolution; Chapter IV: Los Justicieros''. AK Press. 2007. 795p.
See also
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Buenaventura Durruti
José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange (14 July 1896 – 20 November 1936) was a Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant involved with the CNT and FAI in the periods before and during the Spanish Civil War. Durruti played an in ...
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Anarchism
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Los Solidarios
Los Solidarios (“Solidarity”), also known as Crisol (“Crucible”), was a Spanish anarchist armed-struggle group founded in 1922 in Barcelona, as a reply to the dirty war strategy used by the employers and government against trade unions. ...
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Pistolerismo
''Pistolerismo'' refers to the practice used by Spanish employers during the late Restoration of hiring thugs to face and often kill trade unionists and notable workers – and vice versa, most notably present in Barcelona.
Background
Pistol ...
References
Defunct anarchist militant groups
Anarchist organisations in Spain
Left-wing militant groups in Spain
Defunct anarchist organizations in Europe
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