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
Nowadays, two 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. It contains the most members of the two organisations.
They decline the term
anarchist
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...
, preferring to call themselves "
revolutionary
A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates a revolution. The term ''revolutionary'' can also be used as an adjective, to refer to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.
...
unionist" (''syndicalistes révolutionnaires'').
[Bénédicte Rallu]
Le réveil des chats noirs
, '' Politis'', 4 April 2005 (Interviews of members of the CNT-Vignoles
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 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 Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution ...
.
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
Léo Ferré (24 August 1916 – 14 July 1993) was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death. He released s ...
, songwriter
*''
Confédération générale du travail unitaire'', French trade union (1921–1936)
References
External links
CNT-Vignoles HomepageCNT-AIT
Syndicalism
Trade unions in France
International Workers' Association
Trade unions established in 1946
Far-left politics in France
Anarchist organizations in France
Anarchist organizations in Europe
National trade union centers of France
Revolutionary Syndicalism
Syndicalist trade unions
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