Valeriano Orobón Fernández, born on this day in 1901, was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist theoretician, trade union activist, translator, and poet who wrote the lyrics of the revolutionary song “A Las Barricadas”.

Orobón believed in the organizational power of unions, believe that they would have a major role in reorganizing society in a more libertarian fashion. Orobón was also strongly opposed to the communist (i.e., Soviet) ideas in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

Shortly before his untimely death from tuberculosis, Orobón wrote the words of “A Las Barricadas” to the tune of “Warszawianka 1905 roku”, itself a well-known Polish revolutionary song. The anti-fascist tune became the anthem of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), and one of the most popular songs of the Spanish anarchists during the Civil War.

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    Grief, exhaustion, fatigue, confusion, hunger. I’m so overwhelmed I can barely think. I’m too tired to eat, too hungry to sleep.

    Maybe I need to hit the bottom idk

    The thought of making this phone call is genuinely starting to make me space out and feel unwell

    rant

    Why is health like this, a million different fucking doctors for each joint in your body and they all have different rates and none of them communicate, there’s no one person who’s like “oh well all of this is what’s wrong”, it’s up to thd weak and compromised to keep track of themselves. The fact that I have to call to set up something that doctors say I need is, upon reflection, insane. Like if it’s important, why are they waiting for me. Stop letting me avoid.

    I actually kinda wish someone would force me to do this. Like, I’m too obstinent. I want to, but literally can’t.

    And then I try talking to my brother but even though we have all the same shit going on, he gets all weird and distant. Like I told him I was stressed and making dinner, so he just asks what I’m making for dinner. No mention of the fact that I’m stressed. This is the only person I’ve felt comfortable opening up to and it’s like he doesn’t fucking realize how much I trusted him, or that these slights make it even harder to trust him.