The Cause of the Workers Who Are Fighting in Spain Is Yours The Marine Transport Workers and the Spanish Civil War

With the precipitous decline of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in the 1920s, many Wobblies looked to Spain, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labor or CNT), and the international labor organization to which the cnt belonged, the International Working Men’s...

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Published inWobblies of the World p. 212
Main Author Matthew C. White
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Pluto Press 20.10.2017
Subjects
Applied sciences
Armed conflict
Armed forces
Authoritarianism
Behavioral sciences
Charitable behavior
Civil engineering
Civil wars
Communism
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employment
Engineering
Fascism
Human behavior
Industrial unions
Labor
Labor economics
Labor unionization
Labor unions
Marine engineering
Marine structures
Military personnel
Military science
Occupations
Organized labor
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political science
Social behavior
Social interaction
Technical personnel
Transport workers
Volunteerism
War
War theaters
Waterfronts
Workforce
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Summary:With the precipitous decline of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in the 1920s, many Wobblies looked to Spain, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labor or CNT), and the international labor organization to which the cnt belonged, the International Working Men’s Association (IWA, also sometimes referred to as the IWMA) as models to rebuild around. When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, IWW members saw not only the workers’ revolution they dreamed of but also a battle against the fascism that they saw spreading around the world, including the United States. Not surprisingly, given their
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