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

Sara Berenguer

Berenguer, Sara (1919-2010)

A short biography of Sara Berenguer, Spanish anarchist

Masera, Pedro (1877- 1938)

A short biography of the Spanish anarchist miner Pedro Masera, murdered by the Francoists in 1938

Quando as insurreições morrem – Gilles Dauvé

Influente texto sobre a história das revoluções e contrarrevoluções que aconteceram na primeira metade do século XX, especialmente o período de…

Anarchist militia women in revolutionary Spain

Female combatants in the Spanish civil war: milicianas on the front lines and in the rearguard

An overview of women fighters in the anti-fascist militias during the Spanish civil…

Asturian miners in the trenches in October 1934.

The Catalan CNT and the Asturias uprising

Article responding to criticisms of the anarchist CNT union in Catalonia during the Asturias uprising of 1934. In particular it looks at how the…

Montjuich prison, 1939

Political persecution in republican Spain

Short article by Emma Goldman giving an overview of Stalinist persecution of revolutionary antifascists during the Spanish civil war.

Problems of syndicalism and anarchism – Juan Peiró

A pamphlet first published in 1930 composed of a series of articles by Juan Peiró—anarchist glass worker, twice National Secretary of the CNT, …

The aftermath of the massacre at Casas Viejas

A journey into libertarian historical memory; Casas Viejas, January 1933

A short history of the tragically unsuccessful uprising of anarchist peasants in the small town of…

Orobón Fernández and the Workers Alliance – Ramón Álvarez Palomo

A short biography of Valeriano Orobón Fernández, widely regarded as one of the great figures of…

Lola Iturbe

Iturbe, Lola aka Kyra Kyralina aka Kiralina (1902-1990)

A short biography of the Spanish anarchist Lola Iturbe, fighter for women's liberation

Barcelona, July 31, 1909

The First Congress of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT) (Barcelona, September 8-10, 1911)

The Agenda and texts of the Reports presented to the assembly of delegates…

Beyond the IWA: An Interview with the CNT’s International Secretary

Discretely, almost silently, something is happening which will have serious consequences for the future of the international Anarchist movement: the reorganization of anarcho-syndicalism on a global scope, at the initiative of the CNT. Following the agreements of its XI Congress in 2015, the CNT – together with the German FAU and the Italian USI – has organized an international conference of anarcho-syndicalist and…