National Workers' Confederation (Tarper)

NWC

Full name	National Workers' Confederation
Motto	"Long Live the Worker!"
Founded	1888 (1888)
Members	100,000
Journal	Daily Syndie
Key people	Helga Mariacopa, president
Office location	Citrone, Terraum
Country	Tarper

The National Workers' Confederation, or NWC (French: Confédération Nationale des Travailleurs or CNT) is a Tarperti confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labour unions.

Founded in 1888, the NWC was orginally associated with the United Socialist Democratic Party during the Platesan Empire. During the First Tarperti Civil War, the NWC joined the Communist Party of Tarper and its Tarperti Confederation of Labour, in the fight against the United Kingdoms of Tarper and First Republic of Tarper. After the establishment of the Federal Republic, the NWC has become the fourth largest trade union federation in Tarper with 100,000 members.

The NWC operates under the philosophy of the One Big Union and thus is fundamentally opposed to the craft union system used by other Tarperti federations. Strikes by the NWC have been described as socialist and anarchist in nature.

History

The NWC is an anarcho-syndicalist organization based on late 19th-century syndicalist teachings. The confederation was originally a book club that met to discuss the writings of Proudhon and other famed anarchists.

Founding

NWC founder, Madeleine Eldrige, had read some of Proudhon's works and had convinced her friends to join in on a "book club" that would discuss these works of literature. A month after the founding of the club a name was chosen, the National Workers' Confederation. Influenced by the works of Marx and other early socialists, the name reflected the group's ultimate goal of liberating the worker. The NWC decided to become a labour organization instead of a book club. In late 1888, the organization signed its constitution and Madeleine Eldridge at the age of 22 became the first woman to preside over a political organization in the Platesan Empire.

Association with the USDP (1888-1890)

Months after its founding, the NWC sought a partnership with the USDP, at the time the leading socialist organization in the empire. Though the USDP was already affiliated with its own union federation, the Imperial Congress for Labour, it gladly accepted the NWC's request for affiliation. Though the partnership was short-lived due to the ongoing Grand Nationalist Revolutions, the NWC was able to get financial support from the USDP to get its start.

Within the Tarperti Kingdoms (1890-1901)

After the revolutions the NWC was isolated and operated solely in the Tarperti realm. The three Tarperti Kingdoms enacted bans on "subversive" organizations. The definition of "subversive" was broad and included political parties of any kind. At first this did impede labour rights but the NWC was able to pull through orchestrated numerous strikes. The Tarperti kings had placed the NWC into surveillance and had tried time and time again to dissolve the NWC. Progress was made by the NWC, with the kingdoms enacting bare-bones labour laws towards the end of the 19th century.

During this time, the NWC was in an alliance with the Tarperti Confederation of Labour, the trade union federation of the Tarperti Section of the Socialist Party. Both federations participated in joint and general strikes.

The UKT and the first civil war (1901-1914)

The NWC started in the United Kingdoms with a strong presence, quickly becoming second largest union federation in Tarper, behind the TCL only by hundreds of members. Its partnership with the TCL had come to a close when the TSSP had reorganized itself into the Communist Party. Taking part in several riots, the NWC quickly grew is influence over Tarper.

With the outbreak of the first civil war, the NWC decided to ally itself with the Tarperti Confederation, turning its union members into a ragtag militia.

Communist and republican era (1914-2002)

Flag of the NWC

During the communist era the NWC was allowed to exist and received the title of "Official Independent Union", as long as the NWC never became a true competitor to the TCL.

The NWC joined the CPT in its self-exile from Tarper after the founding of the Second Republic of Tarper. The NWC did not maintain relations with the National Party's trade federation, the Work and Industrial Federation, as it accused it of being a reactionary delusion and bastardization of the labour movement.

Resurgence (2002-present)

After the founding of the Federal Republic, the NWC was invited back into Tarper. With waves of membership surges, the NWC soon became the fourth largest union federation in Tarper.

Ideology

The NWC runs on the basis of anarcho-syndicalism and the One Big Union, in which the worker must not be divided on the basis of trade as this may become another type of class.