the FIJL refused to participate in the group's initiative, but its approach to the POUM (communist anti-Stalinist party), would result in the group's headquarters being closed and its main officials repeatedly imprisoned, although usually for brief periods. We find in the group's paper El Amigo del Pueblo a hard rejection of the measures taken by the State in order to return to a pre-revolutionary situation; in the issues from May to July the revolutionary struggles of May were vindicated, repeatedly rejecting the accusations made from many sectors calling them "provocative and irresponsible agents". They denounced censorship of the written press and described them as "counter-revolutionary maneuvers". In September 1937, brigades integrated into the Popular Army (many of which had previously been part of the CNT militias), took the town of Belchite. The pages of El Amigo del Pueblo claimed this to be the work of the "Confederate forces", while continuing to denounce the constant repression suffered by the group. In many of their issues they launched proclamations in favor of the CNT and the FAI, despite having numerous points of disagreement with both. It also emphasized the need to remember "the experiences of the May Days". Several scholars consider that the Friends of Durruti were in a process of ideological separation with moderate anarchism, and that after the experience of the class struggle in the Spanish Civil War, they turned left in the direction of a more organized and strategic anarchism. These faists, disappointed with the collaboration of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT's moderate wing with the state capitalist government, came to sudden reflections such as the following: In 1939 there was a reformation of the group, the exiled Franco-Spanish Group "The Friends of Durruti", which reestablished and dissolved itself on several occasions. They began to publish a new series of the newspaper El Amigo del Pueblo, in 1961 from France. See also Barcelona May Days References Anarchist organisations in Spain Defunct anarchist militant groups Defunct platformist organizations Defunct anarchist organizations in Europe Military units and formations established in 1937 Military units and formations disestablished in 1939 External links Friends of Durruti articles hosted by Libcom.org The Friends of Durruti Group: 1937-1939 Spain 1936 and the Friends of Durruti