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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  • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    The one friend I have in this city can’t stop telling me she considers keeping indoor cats cruel. Every single goddamn time I talk about maybe having a cat some day she just can’t fucking help herself. She knows I’ve lived with indoor cats before and that I loved those cats. I genuinely don’t know if she just doesn’t notice that she has told me about her opinion about this a dozen times already. I sure hope she just forgets she already told me, because she’s otherwise a genuinely emphatic person so she should know she is only hurting me by basically telling me I abused my pets and will continue to abuse any pet I’ll ever have.