Confédération nationale du travail

CNT-F

National Confederation of Labour
Confédération nationale du travail
Founded	1946
Headquarters	Paris, France
Location	France
Members	3700 - 4200 (december 2008)
Key people	No chief
Website	CNT Vignoles : www.cnt-f.org CNT AIT : cnt-ait.fr

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 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).^[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 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.

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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)

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