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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  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Just remembered this time in 7th grade gym class where the substitute gym teacher straight up booed me and called me names for making a really good play. Kickball was the game, bases were loaded or at least 2/3 were, i know it got some runs in. I bunted, there was no catcher cause it’s kickball, strikes aren’t a thing, no rule had been set for how far you had to kick the ball (until after I bunted). This grown ass adult straight up booed me and called me ‘Cheapo’ because apparently it was a cheap move. I assumed that aside from kicking a bigger ball we were following the rules of fucking baseball. Is there a MLB rule that you can only hit pop flies?

    Edit: know what happened when the first guy ever bunted in normal baseball? I don’t but considering it’s still done it seems that history vindicated him if it wasn’t seen as a sick new baseball move in the first place. They didn’t make it against the rules cause it made the game cooler and didn’t fuck things up too much know the other team knew it was an option.

    The next year was worse cause I had a broken jaw but still had to sit there and watch. This little piece of shit who had been my friend but wanted to get in with popular kids ran up to about 3 feet away and whipped a dodge ball right at my face. Since he did just literally try to make me need surgery as well as have my jaw wired shut cause it was hairline at the time so I could at least open my mouth and ear soft foods. So…as anyone would I began beating the absolute shit out of this kid. Got suspended for a week. Which was a free week off school cause no way in hell were my parents gonna say I did the wrong thing cause I didn’t.