Controversy over event organized by CNT Barcelona

by Sonia Muñoz Llort (facebook link)
July 15, 2023

Some might experience we live in dystopian times.

The last 3 years weird alliances made by hate and oppression have arised, and today a talk organized by the CNT Barcelona has showed how anarchomachos and internal hierarchies can’t exist in anarchist spaces.

Today CNT Barcelona is holding a «talk» with known Spanish transphobes. Not only that, one of them named Silvia Carrasco, was a snitch who gave away strikers facing now prison sentences for up to 15 years.

On top of that, pictures like this are historical. Anarcho-syndicalists seeking protection from Mossos d’Esquadra (the Catalan police forces). It is almost unbelievable.

For CNT Barcelona fight against oppression has been selective and narrow for years. This is the last drop, throwing ACAB and freedom for all through the window, while they cooperate with transphobes but deny cooperation with Las Kellys or El Sindicato de Manteros, denying solidarity and support to trans people.

We can’t live from our past, when we have this present and we are not allowed to recognize our own internalized authoritarian patterns that destroy our spaces from the inside.

For more background (in spanish) on the speaker controversy around the guest speaker:
https://ppcc.lahaine.org/polemica-por-la-celebracion-de

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yes please PLEASE break away from the communist museum-piece that is the CNT. it's been an anchor dragging down spanish anarchism for decades. BE FREE!!!

"For CNT Barcelona fight against oppression has been selective and narrow for years.... We can’t live from our past, when we have this present..."

YES, WELL SAID !

Reject CNT, Embrace Strugglismo!

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