The CNT-F (Confédération nationale du travail) or National Confederation of Labour is a French

anarcho-syndicalist Anarcho-syndicalism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence i ...

union. It was founded in 1946 by

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...

anarcho-syndicalists Anarcho-syndicalism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in ...

in exile, and former members of

Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire The Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire (General Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions) was a trade union federation in France founded in 1926 by Pierre Besnard with the help of the Spanish CNT. It was affil ...

(CGT-SR), its name is derived from the Spanish CNT, the

Confederación Nacional del Trabajo The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo ( en, National Confederation of Labor; CNT) is a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist Anarcho-syndicalism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionar ...

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, preferring to call themselves " revolutionary 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 International Workers' Association may refer to: * International Workingmen's Association The International Workingmen's Association (IWA), often called the First International (1864–1876), was an international organisation which aimed at ...

(IWA). They define themselves as anarchosyndicalist, while they have clear influences from

council communism Council communism is a current of communist thought that emerged in the 1920s. Inspired by the November Revolution, council communism was opposed to state socialism and advocated workers' councils and council democracy. Strong in Germany ...

, worker anarchism of the

Federación Obrera Regional Argentina The Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (Spanish: ''Federación Obrera Regional Argentina''; abbreviated FORA), founded in , was Argentina's first national trade unions in Argentina, labor confederation. It split into two wings in 1915, the la ...

(FORA) and the Situationist International.

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CNT-Vignoles Homepage

CNT-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 {{Europe-trade-union-stub

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