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

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…

The CNT and the IWA, part 2: The crisis in the IWA as seen from the CNT

Continued from Part 1. Originally written by RABIOSO. Translated by Lifelong Wobbly.

Valeriano Orobón: la porunuiga voĉo de la Konfederacio en 1934

Valeriano Orobon estis Anarkiisto-Syndikalisto en Hispanio. Li kredis en la "Laborista Alianco"…

CNT-FAI militants during the Spanish revolution

Anarchist organisation: the history of the FAI

The first book-length history of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) from 1927 until it was repressed at the end of the Spanish Civil War in…

CNT members in Valencia, 1978

A new world in our hearts: the faces of Spanish anarchism

Book published in 1978 by Cienfuegos Press, edited by Albert Meltzer, giving an overview of the…

La Kolektivigoj en Katalunio (1936-1939)

Eseo de Antoni Castells Duran pri la kolektivigoj en Katalunio okazigitaj inter la jaroj 1936 kaj 1939.

Why We Lost the War – Diego Abad de Santillán

A retrospective on the Spanish Civil War by the FAI leader, Diego Abad de Santillán, published in 1940, in which the former Minister of the…