The Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo – also known as CNT – is a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labour unions whose eventful, revolutionary and influential history has played a major role in workers’ movements across the globe. This is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain, when the so-called ‘Generation of ’36’, author Peirats’ own generation, rose up against the oppressive structures of Spanish society.