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.