Confederación Nacional del Trabajo

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.