Confédération nationale du travail
The Confédération nationale du travail (CNT-F; French for National Confederation of Labour) is a French anarcho-syndicalist union.
National Confederation of Labour | |
| Confédération nationale du travail | |
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| Founded | 1946 |
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| Headquarters | Paris, France |
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Members | 3700 - 4200 (december 2008) |
Key people | No chief |
| Website | CNT Vignoles : www.cnt-f.org CNT AIT : cnt-ait.fr CNT-SO : |
The French CNT union 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
Nowadays, three French organisations share the name CNT:
- the CNT-Vignoles (or CNT-f), from the name of the street where their main office in Paris is located.
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 participation in the professional elections and collaboration with others unions.
- the CNT-AIT. This is the French section of the International Workers' Association (IWA).
They are smaller and 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.
- The CNT-SO (CNT-Workers Solidarity)
The CNT-SO resulted from a split in the CNT in 2012, mainly of cleaning workers in Paris. The third union has since grown and organises amongst workers in a number of other sectors, cities and regions. The logo of the union mirrors that of the Spanish CGT union, with whom the French CNT-SO have cordial relations.
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See also
- Anarchism in France
- Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), its Spanish sister trade union
- Confederacion General del Trabajo de España (CGT), Spanish anarchosyndicalist trade union
- Étienne Roda-Gil, songwriter and screenwriter
- Léo Ferré, songwriter
- Confédération générale du travail unitaire, French trade union (1921–1936)
References
- Bénédicte Rallu, Le réveil des chats noirs Archived 2005-12-19 at the Wayback Machine, Politis, 4 April 2005 (Interviews of members of the CNT-Vignoles (in French)
