General Confederation of Labour (France)

The General Confederation of Labour (French: Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT) is a French labor union confederation, founded in 1895 in the city of Limoges. It is the first major confederation of trade unions in France. Initially an anarchist and revolutionary syndicalist organization, the Great War and German-Russian revolutions pushed the CGT towards communism, and it subsequently joined the Red International of Labor Unions after the split of reformist minority in the 1921 Congress of Lille. It was banned by the Lyautey regime in 1925, but continues to operate underground and in exile.
Category:French political organizations
Category:Trade unions