Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT)

Content by or about the anarcho-syndicalist union in Spain the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour; CNT).

Spanish anarcho syndicalists in 1936 fighting the fascists

Spanish anarcho syndicalists in 1936 fighting the fascists

Photograph of the Audiencia Nacional building front.

Fire to the anarchist unions: chronicles of a death foretold

An anarcha-feminist critique of anarcho-syndicalism in Spain, as demonstrated by the fracturing of…

Demonstration in Gijon (Asturias), june 2024.

The making of the Spanish CNT-IWA (2010-2024)

It is about 7 years since the spanish CNT-AIT organisation came into existence. Despite its name, which claims a historical trajectory, it is a…

Cover of Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War

Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War - Ronald Radosh, Mary Habeck, & G. N. Sevostianov

An important study examining previously unavailable Soviet archival materials to…

The Betrayal of the CNT

From Internationale Situationniste #11 (October 1967).

Participants of the 28th Congress of the IWA, outside the town hall of Alcoy, Spain.

IWA Congress XXVIII & Centenary

Solidarity Federation report from the 28th Congress of the IWA.

Nestor Makhno 1889-1934

The Ukrainian roots of the 1936 Spanish revolution

This article from the CNT-AIT of France looks at the connections between the Makhnovshchina and the anarchist revolution in Spain.

Three interviews: CNT and Mujeres Libres Manifesto [1977]

Interviews from members of the CNT and Mujeres Libres- a women's anarchist group in post-Franco…

Spain: Some Aspects of the New Workers’ Movement

Feature article on workers' struggles in Spain after the death of Franco for Root & Branch issue #5. Root & Branch was a 1970s libertarian…

1937: Speech by Juan García Oliver

Short filmed speech delivered at some point in 1937. Oliver talks about Buenaventura Durruti and several over Anarchists who had been killed in…

Anarchy and its Allies: The United Front and Groupings of Tendency

An article introducing the concepts anarchists have used to frame collaboration with other…

[GCI-ICG] Theses on the revolution and counterrevolution in the Spanish region during the 1930s

We publish here a historical document, elaborated in 1997 by comrades of the…

Revolutionary Fetishism - Ada Martí, Estudios 160, Jan 1937

An early critique of the fashion for revolutionary images in Civil War Barcelona. The author was a…