CNT-AIT texts in english
News, Apr 22nd Translated from Actualité de l’Anarchosyndicalisme.Content warning: contains accounts of war crimes, including rape. In the previous issue of Anarchosyndicalisme, the CNT-AIT echoed the call for solidarity from anarchists in Sudan. Since a terrible war broke out on 15 April 2023 between two military factions – the Rapid Support Forces (or Janjaweed militias) […]
Leafing through the archives, we found this text published in the CNT-AIT newspaper, Le Combat syndicaliste, n°134 of July 1955, but which still seems very relevant to us! This article, published in 1955 in the newspaper of the time of the CNT-AIT (Le Combat Syndicaliste), was written by René THIEBLEMONT. A metallurgist, he notably worked […]
Date Fri, 16 Dec 2022 There are several organizations in France that call themselves « CNT »: the CNT-AIT (the French section of the International Workers Association, AIT-IWA), the CNT Vignoles (because its Parisian office is located at 33 rue des Vignoles ; this group is been a member of the CIT since January 2024 ) and […]
This article from the CNT-AIT of France looks at the connections between the Makhnovshchina and more broadly the Russian anarchist movement and the anarchist revolution in Spain. Translation : Albatross (https://libcom.org/article/ukrainian-roots-1936-spanish-revolution) On July 19, 1936, the Spanish Revolution broke out, a popular counter-insurgency against the military and fascist coup led by Franco. In Barcelona, in […]
The clashes in Sudan which for eight months now have pitted the Sudanese army of General al-Burhan against the RSF (Rapid Support Forces) of General Mohamed Hamdan are increasing in intensity, amid the general indifference of international public opinion. . Yet real barbarism is also at work in the Horn of Africa. The two factions’ […]
Sudan is experiencing a terrible civil war, which began on April 13, 2023, when several military factions fought over power. You don’t hear about it on TV, nor on social networks, this conflict clearly doesn’t interest many people… Last April, we launched an appeal for international solidarity with the Sudanese anarchist compañeros, who are trying […]
October the 8th, 2023 Once again the flames of war have sparked into life in the Palestine/Israel region. This time Hamas took the inciative to start the atrocities. They did not act alone in this attack, militants from the PFLP also took part in the armed assaults. The pictures are unbearable: civilians murdered in the […]
Every year in October, the sections of the IWA (International Workers Association organize an International week-of struggle against unpaid wages. In fact, unpaid wages are a year-round problem, and it’s all year long that we fight alongside workers for their most basic right: that the boss should simply give them what they’re owed. But this […]
On September 8, 1903, the Ottoman colonial army crushed the Strandzha Commune, the first insurrectionary attempt to establish libertarian Communism in History. This article is part of our series of articles aiming to shed light on the Ilinden uprisings of the summer of 1903. Far from simple nostalgia for a bygone past, to remember this […]
In the summer of 2021, we launched a call for solidarity with young anarchists who were asking for books to set up a libertarian library in Haiti, the first in this country. Many people have responded positively by sending us books. After more than a year of transport, despite the vicissitudes in a country where […]