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

confederation founding in Parma group picture

Independent unions found new Global Union Federation

In May 2018 the “International Confederation of Labour” was founded in Italy to unite independent…

Speech of the CNT-AIT, Anarchist May Day in Barcelona

Text of speech for May Day 2018

Picket in Olot, Catalonia, during the Catalan General Strike of 2017.

10-Point Program of the Catalan CNT

Twice in the last year, the anarcho-syndicalist CNT of Spain has led general strikes which had a massive following, despite the abstention or…

Manuel Escorza del Val

The Echo of the Crutches: An Essay on Manuel Escorza del Val – Víctor Malavez

The first installment of a planned series of articles on Manuel Escorza del Val and the espionage…

CNT

[Answer to IWA Statement] To our friends across the globe:

Some of you have expressed concern and doubt over the lies and half-truths that the current…

Collectivised transport during the revolution

Lessons of the Spanish Revolution - Vernon Richards

A critical account and assessment of the Spanish civil war and revolution, particularly focusing on the successes and failures of the anarchist…

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.