Archive - 2010

Throughout history a small handful of people have tried to impose their will on and sustain their privileges by exploiting the rest. In response, those who

Thursday the 23rd at 7 pm, CNT local Camp de Morvedre calls a protest at the Carrefour supermarket in Sagunto against the firing of our comrade Indira Martínez. She was fired immediated after formalizing the CNT Union Section in the company after working for four long years for those exploiters at the Carrefour Expres supermarket in Pilar de la Horadada.

CNT Compostela is opening a campaign to denounce the hiring conditions in the Galician Government, the Xunta. After several layoffs in different departments, we at CNT cannot remain silent. We have decided to address and attack the outsourcing and exploitation going on in the administration with this campaign which will culminate in a protest in Compostela on February 11, 2011.

Pilar de la Horadada local CNT continues its struggle for the reinstatement of our comrade Indira, fired for her union activism, and for her selfless battle against the "crisis" meaning, among many other attacks on social rights, an excuse to sweep safety and hygiene legislation under the carpet to improve companies' profit and loss accounts by disregarding workers' health and lives; turning having a job into playing the lottery where workers put their life and health on the line.

The Labor Hazard Prevention Law stipulates that a worker's job must be adapted to his or her psychological and physical conditions.

The representative of CNT's union section in the Adra City Government, Maria Carmen Terol, recently was able to readapt her position to her physical characteristics. This public servant, in Parks and Gardens, cleaned and pruned green areas, something incompatible with her chronic lumbalgia.

A Blow to the Flightcare Handling Company

The Labour Court  nº 22 in Barcelona has declared the dismissal of the delegate of the CNT Union in Flightcare invalid. The company must reinstate the dismissed worker immediately.

December 4-8 in Cordoba
Press Conference: Thursday, December 2 12:00 at the CNT  Córdoba: C/ Historiador Domiguez Ortiz, 7 bajo
Tel./Fax: 957 25 43 67 Mobile: 664607664 - cordoba@cnt.es

More than 500 delegates, representing approximately 120 unions of the Confederation, will meet in the Andalucian capital to discuss proposals and alternatives for the new challenges imposed by the the starkest version of Capital, which is hitting the rights and basic needs of the working class with full force.

For the CNT, this Congress is particularly significant, thus it is not in vain that it will be held when this anarcho-syndicalist organization celebrates one hundred years its existence. A century of struggle, full of comrades who have built the libertarian ideal with their lives and efforts.  A century of successes and also of mistakes, but always filled with the conviction that the working class can create a different society through direct action, solidarity and self management. A society for the people, not for money.

CNT's Madrid local Graphic Arts, Communication and Entertainment union publishes its yearly calendar thanks to the collaboration of the best alternative illustrators today:

Olaf, Miguel Brieva, Quico Vicens, Juan Javier, Azagra, Yorgos, Kalvellido, Rasgo, Nemesio, Miguel Baiguel, César Fernández, Kiko Makarro.

12 artists who offer us their particular vision for 2011.

On November 17, CNT-IWA started actions to publicly denounce the Complutense University in their conflict with this institution for hiring students and paying them with scholorships and and to call for the withdrawal of the Budget Balancing Plan.

From 2 to 3 pm we gathered in front of the Student Vicerector's office behind a banner that said "No more cuts and precarious contracts. No to the Budget Balancing Plan. No to collaboration-scholorships." The protest was an attempt to raise awareness in the center's workers. We were warmly supported by our colleagues and other people who happened by.

Erre Ke Erre has the pleasure of offering you a double header this week:

We'll be interviewing our compañero Manuel, from Granada's Oficios Varios union, regarding his conflict with Vincci Hotels. He was fired when he was on sick leave due to an accident he suffered while at work. The company attempted to negate their responsibility and get a bothersome anarco-syndicalist worker out of their hair to boot.

Complete program (in Spanish) can be downloaded or streamed: RadioVallekas

Not long ago, we announced that CNT had won the first of the lawsuits against FCC in the Zaragoza city street cleaner contract. The second sentence wasn't different from the first: once again the court recognized that CNT was in the right and for the same exact reasons as in the first case.

Another resounding success at yesterday's protest against the compaign to repress union activity being waged be SODEMASA-PAR. The large number of comrades who came out to show their support and protest against the absurd repression has made our Union Section feel stronger every day and has renewed its energies to fight and fight to win this despotic abuse. CNT wasn't the only one showing its support: passer-byers expressed their encouragement in regards to the conflict and also of the workers struggle. No one can stand on the sidelines in times like these.

Businessman Luis Alberto Redondo has been forced to pay his workers what he owed them, bending to the insistence of CNT since the end of 2008.

Luis Alberto Redondo, executive of the Siempre Creativos entertainment company, left his workers out in the cold at the end of 2008, owing them large quantities of money. Several workers at the company, members of CNT-Madrid's Graphic Arts, Communication and Entertainment union, opened a conflict with the company to fight for what they were owed. This has gone on for such a long time because of Redondo's obstinacy.

CNT's Oficios Varios union in Pilar de la Horadada is bringing charges against Carrefour for firing Indira Martínez, the CNT union delegate in the company.

CNT alleges that this layoff forms part of a strategy to harass and bring down the members of our Union Section at Carrefour.

We are resolved to make sure that Carrefour is found guilty in a court of law for violating the rights of its workers, including lheir honorable right to freely unionize and that they give Indira her old job back.

TO MARSANS WORKERS. TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC

CNT's Local Federation of Madrid Unions has requested, through the corresponding courts, the removal of our comrade's signature from the LFAP. Our comrade signed as "CNT advisor," from within CNT's union section in that company.

In 2010, CNT turns 100. A hundred years of struggle, peopled by our comrades, men and women who have been building the libertarian ideal with their lives and work. A century of triumphs as well as of false moves, but one always filled with the firm belief that the working class can create a different society through direct action, solidarity and self management. A society for people and not for money. This was the aspiration behind the birth of CNT 100 years ago and it is still behind it today.

On November 1, 1910, in the Fine Arts Center of Barcelona, the CNT - Confederación Nacional de Trabajo in Spanish or the National Confederation of Labor - was founded. This organization, successor to the Spanish chapter of the 1st International (1870), was born in the workers movement as the first independent union organization in Spain.Adopting the internationalist theme of “the emancipation of the workers will be the undertaking of the workers themselves, or will fail,” CNT held in safekeeping popular rebellion which, as a undercurrent of society itself, opposes Power throughout history. This popular feeling emerges triumphal at times throughout history, from the Egyptian Middle Empire to the French Revolution, planting the seeds for the only historical events where humanity has made giant strides in gains of liberty, justice, equality, dignity and progress.