page_title: Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
section_title: Regional confederations
hierarchical_section_title: Confederación Nacional del Trabajo / Organization and function / Structure / Federations and confederations / Regional confederations
caption_attribution_description: Mapa confederal de la CNT
context_page_description: The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo is a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labour unions, which was long affiliated with the International Workers' Association. When working with the latter group it was also known as CNT-AIT. Historically, the CNT has also been affiliated with the Federación Anarquista Ibérica; thus, it has also been referred to as the CNT-FAI. Throughout its history, it has played a major role in the Spanish labor movement.
  Founded in 1910 in Barcelona from groups brought together by the trade union Solidaridad Obrera, it significantly expanded the role of anarchism in Spain, which can be traced to the creation of the Federación de Trabajadores de la Región Española, the successor organization to the Spanish chapter of the IWA.
  Despite several decades when the organization was illegal in Spain, today the CNT continues to participate in the Spanish worker's movement, focusing its efforts on the principles of workers' self-management, federalism, and mutual aid.
context_section_description: A regional confederation brings together several local unions within a geographic regional zone. The structure is the same again: a regional committee with a secretary general and the rest of the Secretariats in a regional plenary to which the local unions send delegations with written agreements previously made in the assembly. The regional division of the CNT has undergone changes through time.
caption: Regional map of the CNT       Andalusia   Aragon-La Rioja   Asturias-León   Canary Islands   Catalonia-Balearics   Central    Extremadura   Galicia   Levante   Murcia   North
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