A-Infos (en) Communique of the CNT-AIT Congress to all workers and fighters -- To All Anarchosyndicalists and Sympathizers

From various unions of the CNT-AIT that left what is now called the "CNT", together with 
others that remain in it but with a critical stance, as well as with many others that were 
expelled or purged for having denounced the irregularities committed, we have met in 
Villalonga from the 13-16 of April in the Congress of Restructuring the anarchosyndicalist 
organization. We would like to publically communicate the reasons and the resolutions of 
our Congress and make a call to unite in our organization in order to strengthen and give 
potential to revolutionary, anti-authoritarian and emancipatory anarchosyndicalism. ---- 
Motivations: In the last few years, what now calls itself "CNT" has been suffering an 
ideological derive in all senses. This has included a series of scandalous situations in 
which some things are decided in the absence of assemblies, there has been a rupture of 
Confederal pact and federalism, a lack of solidarity, the inexistence of transparency[1], 
executive decisions of the Committees, the buying of votes, falsification of agreements, 
committees that veto the unions or their proposals without putting them on the agenda, 
centralism and even physical agression. This derive has produced a weakness in that CNT 
that anybody can see: the need to have paid position because of an absence of militants, 
the inability to publish the CNT newspaper, the decrease in the number of unions 
federated... Above all, it has provoked the serious fact that it was expelled from the 
IWA, our Internacional which established anarcosindicalism in the world, because of the 
numerous irregularities committed by its Spanish section, the "CNT", among others not 
paying the dues[2], as established in the statutes, but also trying to organize a parallel 
international, only because it could not impose its agreements in the Congresses of the 
IWA[3].

The Congress of Restructurization: We met in order to give structure to the numerous 
anarchosyndicalist unions that exist in the geographical area, to affirm 
anarchosyndicalism and the values that have inspired it, especially direct action, against 
parliamentarianism and bourgeois representationism that are being injected into supposedly 
revolutionary organizations, including the "CNT".

We have taken the following agreements:

- We have adopted new statutes which are free of provisions which have supported or can 
support authoritarian practices, vertical structures and executive committees. In 
exchange, we are fostering consensus among the unions, more means for the local 
organizations and more autonomy against the committees, which will be reduced to authentic 
organs limited to coordination.

- Affiliation to the IWA, with the CNT-AIT being its Section in Spain, putting an end to 
the irregular situation that has been promoted by the Committee of the "CNT", and 
contributing to the promotion of internationalism which is so necessary for the opposition 
of a globalized capitalist world, a question that characterizes the real anarcosyndicalism 
and not this colonialism of a negative and irrational "CNT".

- We consider ourselves the continuation of the CNT created in 1910, the 
anarchosyndicalist and historic one.

- We call on all the anarchosyndicalists in the geographic area to retake and resurge 
anarchosyndicalism and to put it in the place that it should be: as a libertarian and 
emanicapatory reference for the working class in the whole world.

From Villalonga, libertarian greetings, in solidarity and internationalist, to all the 
people, groups and organizations that aspire for freedom. .

1. Such an absence of transparency, for example, encouraged the theft of around 20,000 
euros from the CNT treasury by the General Secretary based in Valladolid.
2. For example: The union responsible for the CNT newspaper is no longer nominated by the 
unions and decided in Plenaries, but by the Confederal Committee, since the XI Congress in 
Zaragoza. (Translator's explanation: The CNT's reformist and executive wing have caused 
the situation in which the paper has not been published in years, due to the fact that 
they are trying to keep control of the publication and infuse it with their politics.)
3. A paradox since some unions that were expelled from the CNT were for dues arrears. 
While the CNT failed to pay dues to the IWA, it paid for a legal office of cronies whose 
cost were higher than the dues to the IWA. This office also absorbs all the resources 
destined to help repressed workers and prisoners that are from or collaborate with the CNT.
4. This decision was made by the Committees of the CNT without any agreement of the unions 
or the Congress. Leaving the IWA was not proposed in the XI Congress of the "CNT".

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