Solidaridad Obrera (union)

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country= Spain
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Solidaridad Obrera (Spanish: "Workers' Solidarity") is an anarcho-syndicalist [harvnb|Roca Martínez|2006|p=109] labour union federation primarily in Madrid, Spain that emerged in 1990Cite web |url= http://www.solidaridadobrera.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=8&Itemid=41 |title= ¿Qué es Solidaridad Obrera? |accessdate= 2008-01-11 ] as a split from the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), [Cite web |url= http://www.cnt.es/cartagena/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=15 |title= Preguntas frecuentes sobre CNT |accessdate= 2008-01-12 ] itself a split from the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), the Spanish affiliate of the International Workers Association (IWA; Spanish: AIT). Its founders did not accept the resolutions agreed to by the CGT congress in 1989, nor its final actions such as removing decision-making powers from assemblies and transferring it to executive committees, nor mass enrollment of groups such as the members of the Humanist Party (an offshoot of a political-religious movement in the Southern Cone) or certain splinter groups (for example, the Izquierda Sindical de Banca) of the CCOO (Workers' Commissions, a union federation historically associated with the Communist Party of Spain). The union publishes two periodicals, "Contramarchas" and "El Solidario".

Ideology and principles

The goals of Solidaridad Obrera lie somewhere between what they consider the reformism of the CGT and the uncompromising anarchism of the CNT-AIT. Unlike the CNT, they accept limited participation in works councils (albeit always subject to the decision of the union sections involved); like the CNT, they never accept government subsidies. Their statutes also emphasize that no member of a political party can run in union elections. Like the CGT and CNT, Solidaridad Obrera does not accept members of security forces in its membership, nor priests of any denomination.

The union takes its name from the anarchist publication of the same name, which served as the mouthpiece of the CNT until the end of the Spanish Civil War.

Representation

Solidaridad Obrera has members represented in work councils in Alicante, Menorca and Madrid, where it has particularly visible presence in the works council of the Madrid Metro (Madrid's subway system). [Cite web |url= http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/01/12/madrid/1168596634.html |title= Un motín de viajeros en el metro de Madrid obliga a intervenir a la Policía Nacional |work= El Mundo |language= Spanish |date= December 1, 2007 |accessdate= 2008-01-11 ]

Solidaridad Obrera has about 500 members. Its secretary general is José Ignacio Cabañas Magán.

References

ources

* cite journal
last = Roca Martínez
first = Beltrán
year = 2006
title = Anarchism, anthropology and Andalucia: an analysis of the CNT and 'New Capitalism'
journal = Anarchist Studies
volume = 14
issue = 2
pages = 106–130
publisher = Lawrence & Wishart
location = London
issn = 0967 3393
url = http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/anarchiststudies/articles/Mart%EDnez.pdf
language = English
format = PDF
accessdate = 2007-12-27 ]

External links

* [http://www.solidaridadobrera.org/ Official site of "Solidaridad Obrera"]
* [http://www.solidaridadobrera.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=271&Itemid=126 The Statutes of "Solidaridad Obrera"]
* [http://www.solidaridadobrera.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=273&Itemid=126 IV Congress accords]