A las Barricadas

A las Barricadas (To The Barricades) was one of the most popular songs of the Spanish anarchists during the Spanish Civil War. A las Barricadas is sung to the tune of Warszawianka 1905. The lyrics were written by Valeriano Orobón Fernández in 1936.

"The Confederation" referred to in the final stanza is the anarcho-syndicalist CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo — "National Confederation of Labor"), which at the time was the largest labour union and main anarchist organisation in Spain, and a major force opposing Francisco Franco's military coup against the Spanish Republic from 1936–1939.

Lyrics

The third stanza is sometimes sung instead with the line "Alza la bandera revolucionaria, que del triunfo sin cesar nos lleva en pos" (This sentence is hard to translate to English with the original intent. An approximation is "Raise the revolutionary flag, which unstoppably leads us to victory").

Artists to cover the song include

• A.D.E.S.^[1]
• Asto Pituak^[2]
• Dandelion Junk Queens^[3]
• Jake and the Infernal Machine
• Jean-Marc Leclercq^[4]
• Juventude Maldita (hardcore band from Brazil)^[5]
• Les Amis de ta Femme^[6]
• Los Dolares^[7]
• Los Muertos De Cristo^[8]
• Pascal Comelade^[9]
• Serge Utgé-Royo^[10]
• Vennaskond
• Victor Manuel and Ana Belén (as a duet piece).^[11]
• Bandista (Turkish ensemble, with the name "Haydi Barikata") ^[12]
• In September 2011, during the so-called Arab Spring, an Arabic version appeared on YouTube sung by an amateur in Syrian dialect.^[13]

References

External links

• Score
• Himno de la CNT - Hosting mp3s of A Las Barricadas
• http://anarchismus.at/ - Hosting mp3s of A Las Barricadas