Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo - Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo Members, Buenaventura Durruti, Federica Montseny (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo members, Buenaventura Durruti, Federica Montseny, Diego Abad de Santillan, Eduard Pons Prades, Joan Peiro, Solidaridad Obrera, A las Barricadas, Ramon Vila Capdevila, Joaquin Maurin, Cipriano Mera, Angel Pestana, Francesc Sabate Llopart, Melchor Rodriguez Garcia, Luis Andres Edo, Francisco Ascaso, Amparo Poch y Gascon, Miguel Garcia, Juan Garcia Oliver, Valeriano Orobon Fernandez, Salvador Segui, Josep Lluis i Facerias, Miguel Gimenez Igualada, Jose Peirats, Segundo Blanco, Antonio Garcia Baron, Pau Sabater, Isaac Puente, Eduardo Barriobero y Herran, Rafael Corrales, Anselmo Lorenzo, Fidel Manrique. Excerpt: The Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT; English: ) is a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions affiliated with the International Workers Association (IWA; Spanish: AIT - Asociacion Internacional de los Trabajadores). When working with the latter group it is also known as CNT-AIT. Historically, the CNT has also been affiliated with the Federacion Anarquista Iberica (Iberian Anarchist Federation - FAI). In this capacity it was referred to as the CNT-FAI. Throughout its history, it has played a major role in the Spanish labor movement. Founded in 1910 in Barcelona from groups brought together by the trade union Solidaridad Obrera, it significantly expanded the role of anarchism in Spain, which can be traced to the creation of the Federacion de Trabajadores de la Region Espanola, the successor organization to the Spanish chapter of the IWA. Despite several decades when the organization was illegal in Spain, today the CNT continues to participate in the Spanish worker's movement, focusing its efforts on the principles of workers' self-management, federalism, and mutual aid. The CNT says of its membership, "We make no distinction at the time of admission, we r...