Confederación Revolucionaria de Trabajadores ('Workers Revolutionary Confederation') is a trade union centre in Mexico. Mario Suárez has served as the general secretary of CRT for many years.Grayson, George W. Prospects for Democracy in Mexico. New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1990. p. 128

CRT was founded in 1954,Middlebrook, Kevin J. The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and Authoritarianism in Mexico. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. p. 150 by dissident unions of the Confederación Única de Trabajadores (CUT) that had not gone along with the merger of CUT into the Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC).La Confederación Revolucionaria de Trabajadores, CRT At the time of its founding, CRT rallied some six hundred unions in different parts of Mexico. CRT was affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).Gutiérrez Garza, Esthela. Testimonios de la crisis. México: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1985. p. 38 In 1955, Mexican authorities estimated its membership to 2,535, a low-end estimate.Purcell, Susan Kaufman. The Mexican Profit-Sharing Decision: Politics in an Authoritarian Regime. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. p. 21

As of 1960, its membership was estimated at 3,917 (0.6% of the total union membership in the country).Aziz Nassif, Alberto. El estado mexicano y la CTM. Ediciones de la Casa Chata, 32. México, D.F.: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1989. p. 318 In that year CRT joined the National Workers' Central (CNT), a coalition of different non-CTM/non-BUO labour groups.Aziz Nassif, Alberto. El estado mexicano y la CTM. Ediciones de la Casa Chata, 32. México, D.F.: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1989. p. 119

CRT became a constituent of Congreso del Trabajo ('Labour Congress'), an apex body created in 1966 by various PRI-affiliated trade union organizations.Grayson, George W. Prospects for Democracy in Mexico. New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1990. p. 123

By the late 1980s CRT was estimated to have around 25,000 members, being one of the smallest trade union centres in the country at the time.Grayson, George W. Prospects for Democracy in Mexico. New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1990. p. 124

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