Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 31 2002 @ 01:40 PM CST

could someone tell me the difference(s) between the CNT and the CGT?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 31 2002 @ 01:54 PM CST

If I recall they were essentially the same union, but at sometime in the post Franco years the CNT split over the issue of taking cash from the government to fund their activities. The result was the CNT and CGT, the latter favouring taking the cash and also becoming the larger.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 01 2002 @ 07:24 PM CST

The CC.OO union Is Communist the UGT is Socialist.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 02 2002 @ 07:37 AM CST

CC.OO. is purely reformist with a small critic sector (communist and excommunist) in it. In the 60s was a kind of councilist organisation but in the 70s fall under the control of communists (stalinist). During the 80s it lost all its previous radical spirit and practise and now are socialdemocrats.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 04 2002 @ 11:23 AM CST

I would really be better for a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist to explain the differences, but I\'ll try.

Not so simple at all. The primary difference between the CGT and the CNT in Spain, is the issue of union elections. The CGT will participate in the workcouncil elections that are overseen by the government, and the CNT won\'t. The CNT tends to be strong where there are no elections, and the CGT is strong where there are elections. The CGT is the larger of the two.
The issue is that these workcouncil elections pick individual represenatives, who under Spanish law, aren\'t recallable. Another Spanish anarcho-syndicalist group, Solidaridad Obrera, has a pretty good compramise, I think... the stand candidates for the elections, but the candidates provide resignations letters to the workers who can submit them at any time (making themselves recallable).

Early on, both unions (CNT and CGT) fought over who was the real CNT in the Spanish courts. The group now known as the CNT won, and with it many of the assests that had been siezed by Franco.

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