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Anarchism and Political Change in Spain - Schism, Polarisation and Reconstruction of the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo, 1939-1979 (Hardcover)
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Anarchism and Political Change in Spain - Schism, Polarisation and Reconstruction of the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo, 1939-1979 (Hardcover)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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This history of the anarcho-syndicalist trade union, the
Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo, analyses a period much
neglected in historical research: from the end of the civil war in
1939 to the period of democratic change from 1976 to 1979, when the
organisation was reconstructed after Francos death. The Franco
years were characterised by extraordinary division within the CNT
and by the bureaucratisation and ossification of the organisation
now part in exile in France. The decimation of the Spanish CNT in
1947 by draconian repression enhanced the role of the exiled CNT,
which was now the sole representative of the historic Anarchist
movement in Spain. The moribund notion of Anarchism held by the
exiled organisation could not attract recruits, and thus new forces
drawn to Anarchism in 1960s Spain came through different routes,
related, in large part, to the crisis within Marxism. Some of these
local activists became convinced of the possibility for a
reconstructed CNT, but only if the organisation were renewed.
However, the exiled CNT opposed such ideas and used all possible
means to undermine the movement for a new CNT. Although the
reconstruction of the CNT from 1976 was characterised by the
struggle between these two principal forces, the Spanish CNT
captured the feelings and enthusiasm of Spanish youth, after the
long dark night of Francoism. The libertarian boom was short-lived
however, and by 1978 the CNT was in deep crisis, calling for the
dissolution of the exiled organisation. The latter, and its allies
in Spain, could not allow such a development and organised the
Congress of 1979 to prevent this happening. The subsequent
irrevocable division of the CNT sheds lights on the political,
social and economic fractures that Spain still experiences today.
Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for
Contemporary Spanish Studies, LSE
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