Confédération nationale du travail
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The CNT-F or National Confederation of Labour is a FrenchFrance
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
anarcho-syndicalist union.
It was founded in 1946 by Spanish
Spain
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anarcho-syndicalists
Anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labour movement. The word syndicalism comes from the French word syndicat which means trade union , from the Latin word syndicus which in turn comes from the Greek word σύνδικος which means caretaker of an issue...
in exile, and former members of Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire
Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire
The Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire was a trade union federation in France founded in 1926 by Pierre Besnard with the help of the Spanish CNT...
(CGT-SR) , its name is derived from the Spanish CNT, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo is a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions affiliated with the International Workers Association . When working with the latter group it is also known as CNT-AIT...
.
Division
- the CNT-Vignoles (or CNT-f), from the name of the street where is located their main office in Paris. It grouping the most of the members of the two organisations.
They decline the term anarchist, preferring to call themselves "revolutionary
Revolutionary
A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...
unionist
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
" (syndicalistes révolutionnaires) .
They accept the terms of the 1906 Charter of Amiens
Charter of Amiens
The Charter of Amiens was adopted at the 9th Congress of the Confédération générale du travail French trade-union, which took place in Amiens in October 1906. Its main proposal was the separation between the union movement and the political parties...
, the Charter of Lyon (1926) and the charter of Paris(1946).
They also accept the participation in the professional election and the collaboration with others unions.
- the CNT-AIT. It is the French section of the International Workers AssociationInternational Workers AssociationThe International Workers' Association is an international federation of anarcho-syndicalist labour unions and initiatives based primarily in Europe and Latin America....
(IWA).
They define themselves as anarchosyndicalist, while they have clear influences from council communism
Council communism
Council communism is a current of libertarian Marxism that emerged out of the November Revolution in the 1920s, characterized by its opposition to state capitalism/state socialism as well as its advocacy of workers' councils as the basis for workers' democracy.Originally affiliated with the...
, worker anarchism of the Federación Obrera Regional Argentina (FORA) and the Situationist International.
See also
- Anarchism in FranceAnarchism in FranceThinker Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who grew up during the Restoration was the first self-described anarchist. French anarchists fought in the Spanish Civil War as volunteers in the International Brigades. French anarchism reached its height in the late 19th century...
- Confederacion General del Trabajo de España, (CGT) a Spanish anarchosyndicalist trade union
- Étienne Roda-GilÉtienne Roda-GilÉtienne Roda-Gil was a songwriter and screenwriter. He was married to the painter Nadine Roda-Gil until her death in 1990.-Biography:...
, songwriter and screenwriter - Léo FerréLéo FerréLéo Ferré was a Franco-Monegasque poet, composer, singer and musician.Born in Monaco, Ferré mixed love and melancholy with moral anarchy, lyricism with slang, rhyming verse with prose monologues...
, songwriter - CGTUConfédération générale du travail unitaireConfédération générale du travail unitaire was a trade union confederation in France. CGTU emerged out of split in the Confédération générale du travail, which had been torn by confrontations between socialists and communists. CGTU was founded at a congress in Saint-Étienne in June 1922, and was...
, Union (1921–1936) - René Binamé, music band