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

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We publish here a historical document, elaborated in 1997 by comrades of the…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

Abraham Guillén

Abraham Guillén, Between Bakunin and Marx: Anarchism, Socialism, and the Economics of Self-Management

An introduction to the life and ideas of Abraham Guillén by Tommy Lawson of Red…

A Visit to the Paris CNT - Ben Debney

Between May and August 1998 I travelled from Melbourne. Australia to England, France and Spain. During my holiday in Europe I visited a number of revolutionary unions, including the "Vignoles CNT" in Paris and Lyon, who were expelled from the International Workers' Association at its last congress in Madrid. Article from Black Flag #216 1999.