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

Soviets o Sindicatos

Valeriano Orobón Fernández in 1920 on dictatorship and unions

A brief article about Spanish anarcho-sydncialist Valeriano Orobón Fernández and his thoughts on the…

ANTOLOGIA DEL ANARCOSINDICALISMO - VICTOR GARCIA

Three fragments on ‘the militant’

The following are extracts taken from the Antología del anarcosindicalismo (Montady: Ediciones Ruta-BASE, 1988), a remarkable volume put together…

Lucía Sánchez Saornil

19 July - Lucía Sánchez Saornil

Following the transformative working-class resistance to the military coup against the Second Republic, which began in Spain’s major cities on 19…

Federica Montseny

Mothers without fathers or nothing more than a woman: gender and anarchism in the work of Federica Montseny, 1923–1929 - Andrew Hamilton Lee

A dissertation that focuses on Federica Montseny Mañe (1905–1994) to examine the…

Lucía Sánchez Saornil

The woman question in our circles - Lucía Sánchez Saornil

These are the first three in a series of five articles published by L.S. Saornil in the CNT…

Lucía Sánchez Saornil

Women of the Spanish Civil War: Part 1 – Lucía Sánchez Saornil

A biography by Caroline Angus of anarcho-syndicalist militant Lucía Sánchez Saornil. Originally…

Laureano Cerrada (with the X), behind him Federica Montseny and Germinal Esgleas (with the hat).

More on the libertarian underground in France: legal assets and money-laundering

An article about the exiled Spanish anarchist movement in France and their attempts to fund the…

Federica Montseny

Federica Montseny and Spanish Anarchist Feminism - Shirley F. Fredericks

An article by Shirley F. Fredericks about Federica Montseny, a Spanish anarchist and CNT militant…

goldman and Montseny

Talking about a revolution: Federica Montseny and Emma Goldman during the Spanish Civil War - Catarina von Wedemeyer

A chapter from Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War , Catarina von Wedemeyer's …

Federica Montseny

Militant anarchism and the reality in Spain - Federica Montseny

A quote from a speech by Federica Montseny, at the time the Minister of Public Health of Spain, at a…

Federica Montseny

Women in the Spanish Civil War: Part 2 – Federica Montseny Mañé

A biography by Caroline Angus of anarcho-syndicalist militant Federica Montseny Mañé. Originally…

Federica-Montseny

The Confederation’s internal and external crisis - Federica Montseny

An article by Federica Montseny describing some of the pressures facing the CNT in 1931, which…