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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    Realized today that my kid has never seen local news because I heard “Hey dad look!” and looked at the paused TV and it was Realistic Fish Head, the Bikini Bottom news anchor “This fish is the mayor!”

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    Hello my beloved posters, I am asking for some help. I’m going to write an essay on the Zapatistas for college, and I’m interested in whether or not they should be described as a Marxist movement. I vaguely remember hearing that they reject the label of Marxism and see it as a Eurocentric ideology (or am I getting them mixed up with another group?). Anyway, if anyone has any interesting literature or videos or anything about the Zapatistas and their ideology, I would love to see it.

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    I played the bee movie game (Wii) as a substitute for watching the movie, I think it works but the game is

    spoiler

    actually a coninuation of the movie. You manage to kill the opposing lawyer at the end by collectivizing as bees do you also set about fixing the ecosystem

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    JEWISH HEXBEARIANS; Is today a special day in the Jewish calendar that means you can’t work with human bodies? Because if not my israeli lab partner just did a pretty great bamboozle.

    Like I think its passover. But I don’t know the rules.

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    I had no idea who this Ms Rachel person was before zionists tried to cancel her but after looking her up, it’s really the most comical target imaginable. There’s a lot of weird stuff on Youtube Kids but Ms Rachel seems so sincere and wholesome, she has all these videos with Elmo, going after her of all people is wild.

    Edit: I watched the first 5 minutes and it stands out to me that during the ABCs song with Elmo, she’s actually singing harmonies to the tune. I feel like I wouldn’t bother with that if I was singing to toddlers and it’s kinda sweet that she does.

    Edit 2: “If you ask any parent in the United States to choose between abandoning Ms Rachel and being Hamas, you’re going to get everyone to choose being Hamas.” - Matt Lieb inshallah

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    latest chapo made an interesting point (admittedly after reminiscing for too long about some TV show I’ve never heard of and will not watch)

    whoever takes office after Trump will have to go whole hog in rooting out everything he’s done and punishing officials for their involvement, or all this is just gonna slip into president and we’ll be stuck with this as normal… you know, kinda like what Obama didn’t do after taking the reins from Bush.

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    Canadian redditors can’t stop saying stupid shit like:

    If we get annexed by the USA, we will VOOT in their elections, and we’re so progressive it will turn the whole danged congress and senate BLUE, and then Trump will be sorry!

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    Today I had to transport some cats and one of them kept meowing. So I said “say meow if you’re a little stinker.” He fell for it, lol. Dumbass little stinker.

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    So getting kissed from a rose on the grey has had pretty thorough writing. What about other flowers and colours? If you’re kissed by a daffodil on the orange can you keep being a great tower alone on the sea? Or does it prevent thar kind of behavior as well?