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

Speech at the Madrid Ateneo - Salvador Seguí

A speech delivered by Salvador Seguí in 1919 in Madrid in which the CNT leader denounces Catalonian separatism as an alibi for the repression of…

CNT barricade on the Ramblas, May 1937

The May days: Barcelona 1937

Interesting collection of writings on the May days in Barcelona: the combination of the "civil war within the civil war" as workers fought back…

European syndicalism and the IWW

European syndicalism and the IWW

A 1933 reply by Ralph Chaplin to, seemingly, Spanish anarchist Maximiliano Olay, about the differences between the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist…

The Congress of Zaragoza

Sabate cover illustration by Clifford Harper

Sabate: guerrilla extraordinary - Antonio Tellez

Fantastic and detailed biography of legendary anti-Franco guerrilla, Francisco Sabate Llopart. Written by Antonio Tellez and translated by Stuart…

Aspects of syndicalism in Spain, Sweden and USA - Philip Holgate

A look at revolutionary and anarcho-syndicalism in three countries with sizeable syndicalist organisations in the 20th century.

Industrial Worker #1704 (April 2008)

The April 2008 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

Revolutionary Spain: unionists vs politicians

An article by 'Vizzittelly' on the situation for revolutionary syndicalism in Spain. Originally appeared in the [i]Industrial Worker[/i,]…

Stalin in 1936

The USSR and the CNT: an unconscionable stance - Alexander Schapiro

Article in the newspaper of Uruguayan anarcho-syndicalists from 1937 criticising a pro-Moscow line…

Book cover

Spanish Marxism vs Soviet Communism: A History of the P.O.U.M. in the Spanish Civil War - Victor Alba

Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism is the first historical study of the P.O.U…

Alcoy strike of bakery workers

Alcoy bakery workers strike

The Inter-Professional (cross-trade) Union of the CNT (Spanish section of the International Workers' Association IWA-AIT) in the city of Alcoy …

The Revolutionary Syndicalist Committees in Spain - The history of the revolutionary syndicalist tendency of the CNT (1919-1925) - Comités Syndicalistes révolutionnaires

An account of the rise and fall of the CNT’s Revolutionary Syndicalist tendency…