A-Infos (en) levante cnt-ait: CNT-AIT INFORMA + press release DEMAND for IMPOSTORES (ca, it) [machine translation]

For some time now, there have been two organizations in Spain that seem to share a name, 
since one day they were one and the same, but whose trajectories have been distanced. This 
is the CNT (formerly CNT-AIT) and the CNT-AIT that holds the right to carry the initials 
of the Anarcho-Syndicalist International, the International Workers' Association. ---- The 
time has come to make known to wider sectors of the population the circumstances that gave 
rise to this difference and the premeditated distancing of the basic principles and 
statutes from the executive committees of the CNT, generating the situation in which the 
anarcho-syndicalism in our country, represented today in the CNT-AIT. ---- Broadly 
speaking we could say that the organization that today calls itself CNT to dry began its 
deriving centralist, hierarchical and pyramidal for more than ten years. The CNT's own 
proportional voting system - whereby the unions with the most affiliations had more votes 
when making decisions - greatly facilitated this state of affairs, since it began by 
encouraging the unions to always be large cities those that will take forward their 
proposals to the detriment of the proposals of the unions of minor localities. The system 
was completed by increasing the minimum number of members needed to form a union, thus 
converting many who had previously been into "confederal nuclei" incapacitated for voting 
and making decisions within the organization.

This CNT began to organize itself in such a way that preponderance was given to the 
committees, instead of the assemblies and the traditional statutory processes that 
guarantee the horizontality in the taking of agreements. From our perspective, when the 
agreements emanated from these committees or the agreements taken by the force of the vote 
are mandatory for all unions in the organization, we are talking about authoritarianism 
within an organization that is called anarcho-syndicalist, horizontal and egalitarian. 
These committees expelled, disaffiliated and, in general, embittered the lives of many 
unions, in an anti-statutory way and, unfortunately, never tried to raise them again in 
the places they left devastated.

Anyone can see that, in practice, the CNT has increasingly become a service union that 
seeks to continuously increase the number of members, an affiliation that is not a member 
of the organization but that is limited to contributions and that, for Through a 
contracted legal cabinet, their conflicts are resolved - thus opposing the 
anarcho-syndicalist premise of direct action. To this we must add that the workers of this 
technical cabinet are hired by the CNT in the form of self-employed workers but, by 
working exclusively and having a monthly equal, automatically become false self-employed 
workers, being actually salaried employees of the organization. Other functions within the 
organization are also remunerated, for example, the work within the FAL (Anselmo Lorenzo 
Foundation for Libertarian Studies) through the hiring of a cooperative that is no more 
than a fiscal umbrella to hide direct contracting. We do not know exactly how many people 
are living exclusively from working for the CNT or for the FAL and we do not understand 
why CNT considers that they are not "liberated union members".

We know that the FAL, an organism belonging to the CNT, contravening another of the 
anarcho-syndicalist principles, has received state aid in accordance with the provisions 
of the regulatory bases for granting public subsidies from the Ministry of Culture. For 
this reason we understand that CNT is not against subsidies as it perceives them (see for 
example this BOE https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2007/07/05/pdfs/A29139-29141.pdf ) .

And, although it is an odious issue, we should talk about the economic embezzlement that 
is occurring in the CNT by certain individuals for their personal interests: travel and 
stays are paid in large hotels and there are even accusations that there have been 
robberies direct to the accounts of the organization by secretaries. To this we must add 
another form of embezzlement, through the hiring of their own companies that invoice their 
work, whether it is in the realization of audiovisual material or in the reform of premises.

This way of working has meant that almost all the legal and pro-prisoners fund was wasted, 
originally intended as a box of resistance and support for prisoners and that has now been 
used to "liberate people". Another fund that has been squandered and has practically 
disappeared is the equity fund, which should have been used to help the new unions to have 
a place but was never used for this purpose.

To finish explaining this drift we need to talk about the AIT. In recent decades, the CNT, 
or rather its committees, have been continuously boycotting this international, engaging 
with other unions outside the AIT to form a parallel international, wanting to impose a 
voting system to make agreements. that would make the IWA dependent on the decisions of 
only three sections or blocking the money from the quotas that is contributed to the AIT 
behind the backs of the CNT's own unions. Until these actions led to the exit agreement of 
the CNT of the International Workers' Association, recognizing the facts for which the CNT 
voluntarily and deliberately remained outside the AIT.

It seems extensive, but it is only a summary since, for these practices and for many 
others, it is for what a considerable number of unions have been responsible for 
maintaining the CNT-AIT and restructuring the damage done from the committees of that CNT 
unrecognizable in its principles and traitorous to its own agreements and statutes. 
Federated unions after a congressional process outside the CNT of the committees that we 
do not recognize, breaking all relations with it and restructuring the CNT-AIT, an 
anarcho-syndicalist organization attached to the AIT (International Association of 
Workers) and that in its principles and practices is akin to and coherent with anarchist 
ideals and principles. We continue to be, therefore, the CNT-AIT, a recognized historical 
continuation of the National Confederation of Labor attached to the IWA since 1922.

All this situation could have continued to go unnoticed for the working class in general, 
but for the last occurrence of the very executive committees of that self-styled CNT: sue 
several unions of the CNT-AIT for the simple fact of existing and performing union and 
social action, sheltering in the legal excuse of a "fraudulent use of acronyms and damage 
its image and expansion". They have also sued the Libertarian Ateneo de Albacete, we 
understand that having a close relationship with CNT-AIT Albacete since they share a local 
space, and has demanded nominally several anarcho-syndicalist comrades from Cádiz. These 
demands not only seek the disappearance of anarcho-syndicalist organizations, they also 
ask for a compensation of € 50,000 to each defendant union and the compas of Cádiz,

From our perspective it is incredible that an organization continues calling itself 
anarcho-syndicalist going to the courts to attack, through the state repressive apparatus, 
anarcho-syndicalist unions for the simple fact of existing. And it definitely confirms to 
us on which side this "split of the committees" is placed, self-styled CNT to dry in this 
class struggle.

We believe that it is a matter of anarchist ethics to bring these facts to the attention 
of the whole society.

You can find the CNT-AIT in the following places:

Granada - Torrelavega - Cádiz- Chiclana - Guadix - Madrid (Construction) - La Puebla del 
Río - Lanzarote - Lugo - Motril - Tarragona - Reus - El Vendrell - Elda - Castellón - 
Alcoy - Albacete - Marina Alta - Sagunto - Gandía

PRESS RELEASE

It is a little known fact that there are already two organizations in this country that 
seem to share a name, since one day they were one and the same, but whose trajectories 
have been distanced. This is the CNT (formerly CNT-AIT) and the CNT-AIT that holds the 
right to carry the initials of the Anarcho-Syndicalist International, the International 
Workers' Association. The time has come to make known to wider sectors of the population 
the circumstances that gave rise to this difference and that have generated the situation 
in which anarcho-syndicalism is found in our country, represented today in the CNT-AIT.

The dispute that gave birth to this division was born as a result of the internal drift of 
the CNT, which was on its way to becoming a centralist organization in a gradual break 
with federalism. An organization whose agreements, more and more frequently, were adopted 
from top to bottom, decided by their different secretariats and not by the assemblies of 
the unions, which breaks any principle of horizontality and transforms the CNT into a 
hierarchical and pyramidal organization. While the accounts of the organization were being 
emptied for the benefit of personal interests, we proceeded to the repeated expulsion of 
anarchist colleagues and unions that opposed this drift, with the intention of carrying 
out an ideological cleansing in the CNT.

To all this must be added the continued boycott of CNT against the AIT (International 
Association of Workers) when it was adhered to it: stoppage of financial contributions, 
repeated breach of agreements, concealment of information, conspiracy behind them with 
other trade union organizations from other countries to take away their strength, 
manipulation attempts to alter the voting system, etc. Finally, the IWA agreed to the 
departure of the CNT from its ranks, recognizing the facts for which the CNT voluntarily 
and deliberately remained outside the AIT. denying themselves the right to carry their 
initials.

But many of the CNT unions have taken the responsibility to maintain the CNT-AIT and 
restructure the damage done from the committees of that CNT unrecognizable in its 
principles and traitorous to its own agreements and statutes. Federated unions after a 
congressional process outside the CNT of the committees that we do not recognize. Since 
the restructuring of the CNT-AIT, which brings together these unions, is consistent with 
the principles of anarcho-syndicalism and respects and accepts the principles of the 
Anarcho-Syndicalist International, the IWA formally welcomed them into its ranks and, 
therefore, enjoys the right to show off in its acronyms those of the International. It 
remains, therefore, the CNT-AIT, a recognized historical continuation of the National 
Confederation of Labor attached to the IWA since 1922.

In recent times, CNT has sued several unions of CNT-AIT under the legal excuse of a 
"fraudulent use of acronyms and damage their image and expansion." He has also sued the 
Libertarian Ateneo de Albacete, we understand that having a close relationship with 
CNT-AIT Albacete as they even share local, and has sued nominally several 
anarcho-syndicalist comrades from Cádiz. These demands not only seek the disappearance of 
anarcho-syndicalist organizations, they also ask for an indemnity of € 50,000 to each 
defendant union and the comrades of Cádiz, which can represent serious difficulties for 
the anarcho-syndicalist comrades who could not assume this amount.

These are the different locations where CNT-AIT unions can be found:

Granada - Torrelavega - Cádiz- Chiclana - Guadix - Madrid (Construction) - La Puebla del 
Río - Lanzarote - Lugo - Motril - Tarragona - Reus - El Vendrell - Elda - Castellón - 
Alcoy - Albacete - Marina Alta - Sagunto - Gandía

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