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

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…

CNTE, FAU and USI release open invitation to the Bilbao International Conference, 26-27 November, 2016

The CNTE, the FAU, and the USI-AIT have issued an open invitation to anarcho-syndicalist and revolutionary syndicalist organisations to participate in a conference on the rebuilding of the IWA in Bilbao on the 26-27 of November 2016.

Emancipation Vol. 9, Issue 5, Number 69 (December 1986)

The Vol. 9, Issue 5, Number 69 (December 1986) issue of Emancipation a publication produced by the…

Buenaventura Durruti

Buenaventura Durruti interview - Pierre van Paassen

Supposed interview between Buenaventura Durruti and Pierre van Paassen of the Toronto Star during the Spanish civil war.

Augustin Souchy, left, on his 90th birthday

Beware! Anarchist! A life for freedom - Augustin Souchy

The incredible autobiography of an incredible man. Souchy fought in the Spanish Revolution; was a…

New Trends Vol. 1, No. 7 (April 1946)

The Vol. 1, No. 7 (April 1946) issue of New Trends, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from September 1945 until August 1946.

New Trends Vol. 1, No. 5-6 (February-March 1946)

The Vol. 1, No. 5-6 (February-March 1946) issue of New Trends, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from September 1945 until…

CNT militants in Barcelona (they are on the back of a truck, next to a field gun

A grassroot CNT militant remembers: The oral memoirs of Luis Parés Adán

Luis Parés Adán's account of the Spanish revolution, defeat and the post-war resistance from the…

Republican troops in the Spanish Civil War

Spain turns

Contempory account and analysis of events in Spain, particularly concerning the social revolution, from anti-Bolshevik Marxist journal International Review, Vol.2 No.3, New York, April 1937.

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…