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

To remember Spain: the anarchist and syndicalist revolution of 1936 - Murray Bookchin

Collected essays by Murray Bookchin on the Spanish Revolution.

Video report from Spain: Madrid on the brink, S25 - S29

A report from the Occupy Congress protests in Madrid.

Mass Meeting in Barcelona in 1976

Theoretical anarchism and anarchist ideology - Miguel Amorós

An essay on post-1939 Spanish anarchism and its ideological fossilization, with special emphasis on…

CNT Congress 1910

Report Submitted to the Confederal Committee of the CNT by Delegate Angel Pestaña regarding his Conduct at the Second Congress of the Third International – Angel Pestaña

Angel Pestaña’s official report to the Confederal Committee of the CNT regarding…

An overview of the Spanish libertarian movement

Murray Bookchin provides a succinct and weighty overview of the dimensions and historical significance of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution of…

Six articles on the Spanish Revolution - Pierre Besnard

In this collection of articles originally published in 1947-48 in the Toulouse journal, Universo,…

Some words on the miner's conflict in Asturias

Article about the miners' strike in Asturia in 2012 by Jose Maria Martinez.

History and actuality of anarcha-feminism: lessons from Spain - Marta Iniguez de Heredia

Anarcha-feminism is, ultimately, a tautology. Anarchism seeks the liberation of all…

Angel Pestaña

Seventy days in Russia: What I saw - Angel Pestaña

First published in Spain in 1924, Angel Pestaña’s journal recounting his experiences in Russia in the summer of 1920 as the delegate sent by the…

Lucia Sanchez Saornil

The question of feminism - Lucia Sanchez Saornil

Excerpts from a long article by Spanish anarchist Lucia Sanchez Saornil on women's liberation and the sexist attitudes of men in the Spanish…

'The struggle for the streets': Unemployed hawkers, protest culture and repression in the Barcelona area, c1918-1936

An article by Chris Ealham on the CNT's mobilisation of street traders, whom the…

CGT, CNT and SO call for participation in the 29 March general strike

Joint statement by the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), Confederación Nacional del Trabajo …