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

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We publish here a historical document, elaborated in 1997 by comrades of the…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

Lucía Sánchez Saornil addresses a gathering of Mujeres Libres

1 May 1937: Controllers and Controlled – Lucía Sánchez Saornil

An article by one of the founders of the Mujeres Libres grouping, which appeared in its review in…

Fedorov A.Y. Oranges of Discord: How the Struggle for Control of Citrus Harvesting and Export Undermined Anti- Fascist Unity in Spain in 1936-1937

Albert Einstein in Barcelona: "My name is Albert Einstein and I am also revolutionary, an anti-authoritarian"

In February 1923, Albert Einstein visited Barcelona at the invitation of the…

North American Anarchist Vol. 1, No. 4, April/May 1980

Issue #4 of the North American Anarchist, with articles on war, the Quebec independence referendum,…

North American Anarchist Vol. 1, No. 3, February/March 1980

Issue #3 of North American Anarchist, with articles on the CNT, the Persons Unknown trial, the 1980…