Confederación Nacional del Trabajo

The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, known as the CNT and meaning National Confederation of Labor, is a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist trade union confederation. It was founded in 1910 in Barcelona from groups brought together by the trade union Solidaridad Obrera, and it greatly expanded the role of anarchism in Spain, whose roots go back to the Spanish chapter of the International Workers' Association created in 1870. After decades of illegality it continues in the Spanish workers' movement, stressing workers' self-management, federalism and mutual aid, and it helped found the International Confederation of Labour in 2018.