Iberian Anarchist Federation
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Iberian Anarchist Federation
Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI) |
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| Founded | 1927 |
| Newspaper | Tierra y Libertad |
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Anarcho-communism Anarcho-syndicalism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | International of Anarchist Federations |
| Colors | Black |
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The Iberian Anarchist Federation (Spanish: Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI)) is a Spanish organization of anarchist (anarcho-syndicalist and anarchist-communist) militants active within affinity groups inside the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) anarcho-syndicalist union. It is often abbreviated as CNT-FAI because of the close relationship between the two organizations. The FAI publishes the periodical Tierra y Libertad.
The Iberian part of its name alludes to the purpose of unifying Spanish and Portuguese anarchists in a Pan-Iberian organization. The FAI meetings were attended by members of the União Anarquista Portuguesa and the Confederação Geral do Trabalho (including the Zaragoza Congress of the CNT in 1936). It is still in operation today, and aligns itself with the International of Anarchist Federations (IAF-IFA).
It was founded in Valencia in 1927 (after a preliminary meeting the previous year in Marseille, France), to campaign for keeping the CNT on an anarchist path by challenging the bureaucracy of the CNT—which it viewed as having grown to become a mediating link between labour and capital, rather than a representative of the working class. This issue was becoming especially tense, as Miguel Primo de Rivera's dictatorial regime took over in Spain, and engineered a crackdown on labour movements.
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