Confédération nationale du travail
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| National Confederation of Labour | |
| Confédération nationale du travail | |
| Founded | 1946 |
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| Members | About 8.000 members (6000-2000) |
| Country | France |
| Head union | No chief |
| Office location | Paris, France |
| Website | CNT Vignoles : www.cnt-f.org CNT AIT : cnt-ait.info |
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[edit] History
The CNT-F (Confédération nationale du travail) or National Confederation of Labour is a French anarcho-syndicalist union.
It was founded in 1946 by Spanish anarcho-syndicalists in exile, and former members of Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire (CGT-SR) , its name is derived from the Spanish CNT, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo.
[edit] Division
Nowadays, two French organisations share the name CNT:
- 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 epithet of anarchist, preferring to call themselves "revolutionary unionist" (syndicalistes révolutionnaires) [1]. They accept the terms of the 1906 Charter of Amiens, 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 Association (IWA).
They define themselves as anarchosyndicalist, while they have clear influences from council communism, worker anarchism of the Federación Obrera Regional Argentina (FORA) and the Situationist International.
[edit] References
- ^ Bénédicte Rallu, Le réveil des chats noirs, Politis, 4 April 2005 (Interviews of members of the CNT-Vignoles (French)
[edit] See also
- Anarchism in France
- Confederacion General del Trabajo de España, (CGT) a Spanish anarchosyndicalist trade union
- Étienne Roda-Gil, songwriter and screenwriter
- Léo Ferré, songwriter
- CGT-U, Union (1920-1936)
- René Binamé, music band
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