WORLD WORLDWIDE INTERNATIONAL - news journal UPDATE - (en) IWA-AIT: ON THE TRIALS IN THE NATIONAL COURT AGAINST THE CNT-AIT (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Next Thursday, September 19th, the trials against 16 unions of the

CNT-AIT (IWA) begin as a consequence of the lawsuits brought by the
CNT-CIT (ICL), a union with which we formed a single organisation until
less than 10 years ago. We will not go into the reasons for this
situation, something we already did 3 years ago in a text entitled
'Against all odds'. Today our intention is to inform and point out some
questions about the content and the meaning of the lawsuits.
The lawsuits seek to force us (through the State) to stop using 'the
name National Confederation of Labour, the initials CNT, its distinctive
signs[flags and logos]... and its emblem[Hercules fighting the Lion of
Nemea]', with the argument that 'they are registered as National
Trademarks' (at the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office) in the name of
the CNT-CIT. They accuse us of supplanting an identity that they claim
belongs to them and seek to confuse their potential affiliates by using
this historical prestige. But the only certainty is that, of the two
parties, the CNT-AIT is the only one that has always made it clear who
it is and to which international it belongs (the International Workers'
Association founded in 1922). About the CNT-CIT, on the other hand, one
could almost say that they deliberately hide this as a marketing
strategy. Who is creating the confusion? The answer seems obvious to us.

Another point that we think is relevant in the lawsuits is their
intention to judicially prevent us from publically saying what happened,
about their intolerable behaviour, their political manoeuvres and their
corrupt practices. They intend to silence us by making use of the
National Court, achieving by the force of the State what their lack of
moral legitimacy has been unable to achieve.

As if this were not shameful enough, they are asking for EUR50,000 from
each defendant union (a total of EUR800,000) for the alleged 'moral
damages' caused, with the aim of crippling us financially.

It is clear that this lawsuit not only seeks to take away our name and
identity, but to deny us what we have built up over more than a century
and bury us under outrageous compensation payments. The argument of the
alleged 'moral damages' is completely ridiculous, a punitive and
dishonest strategy to achieve what they have been seeking for years. Our
disappearance.

Once again, and in conclusion, we call on the entire membership of the
ICL ashamed of the actions of its committees to put an end to this, and
on the anarchist movement in general to come out of passivity and
abandon equidistance.

Salut and Social Revolution.

https://iwa-ait.org/content/trials-national-court-against-cnt-ait
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