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Sunday, January 28, 2007
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Following the liberation of Aragon in 1936 the Spanish Anarchist hero Buenaventura Durruti told Pierre Van Passen of the Toronto Daily Star: "We are setting an example to the German and Italian working class how to deal with fascism."
Van Passen: "Do you expect any help from France and Britain now that Hitler and Mussolini have begun to assist the rebels?"
Durruti: "I do not expect any help for a libertarian revolution from any government in the world."
Van Passen: "Can you win alone? You will be sitting on top of a pile of ruins even if you are victorious."
Durruti: "We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a time. For, you must not forget, that we can also build these palaces and cities, here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of the ruins. We are going to inherit the earth. There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts, that world is growing in this minute."
Van Passen signed off with: 'From the distance came the roll of the cannonade.'
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