Confédération nationale du travail

CNT-F

Full name	National Confederation of Labour
Native name	Confédération nationale du travail
Founded	1946
Members	3700 - 4200 (december 2008)
Country	France
Head union	No chief
Office location	Paris, France
Website	CNT Vignoles : www.cnt-f.org CNT AIT : cnt-ait.info

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.

Division

CNT-F

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 term 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.

See also

Organized labour portal

• Anarchism in France
• Confederacion General del Trabajo de España, (CGT) a Spanish anarchosyndicalist trade union
• Étienne Roda-Gil, songwriter and screenwriter
• Léo Ferré, songwriter
• CGTU, Union (1921–1936)
• René Binamé, music band

References

1. ^ Bénédicte Rallu, Le réveil des chats noirs, Politis, 4 April 2005 (Interviews of members of the CNT-Vignoles (French)

External links

• CNT-Vignoles Homepage
• CNT-AIT