The Friends of Durruti Group (in Spanish, Agrupación de los Amigos de Durruti) was an anarchist group in Spain, named after Buenaventura Durruti. It was founded on 15 March 1937, by Jaime Balius, Félix Martínez and Pablo Ruiz. The group edited the newspaper El Amigo del Pueblo from May 1937 to February 1938. The Friends of Durruti Group's document "Towards a Fresh Revolution" has been a major influence on the platformist tendency within anarchism. History The group was formed from a current of workers that defined themselves against the collaboration of the CNT with the government, and milicianos who returned to Barcelona to fight against the militarization of the militias. Thus, most of the members of the new group were former members of the Fourth Group of the Durruti Column, at the head of which Pablo Ruiz, Progreso Ródenas and Eduardo Cerveró had been, among others. From its establishment on 17 March, until 3 May, the Group held several meetings, launched various manifests and leaflets, demanding the release of the libertarian leader Francisco Maroto del Ojo, sabotaged the intervention of Federica Montseny at a meeting on 11 April and filled the walls of Barcelona with posters explaining their program. The essayist Miquel Amorós (The Betrayed Revolution) identifies the Barcelona May Days with the revolutionary platform of the Friends of Durruti. According to this author, the Friends of Durruti was the only political group in the entire republican zone with an authentic revolutionary program capable of setting objectives for the spontaneous revolution of the masses of July 1936 and which was exhausted after the "May events" due to the counterrevolutionary actions of the Stalinists allied with the republican bourgeoisie and the CNT ministers (Federica Montseny, García Oliver, etc.). The Friends of Durruti program includes: The destruction of the capitalist economy and any form of state, and the establishment of libertarian communism. The substitution of the State and capitalism by unions as economic institutions, municipalities as political institutions, and the federation from the bottom-up as a means of establishing links between unions and municipalities. On 5 May, during the so-called May Days of 1937, they published an leaflet stating that "A Revolutionary Junta has been constituted in Barcelona. All those responsible for the coup d'etat, who maneuver under government protection, will be executed. The POUM will be a member of the Revolutionary Junta because they supported the workers." Both the CNT and