u/Apprehensive-Dig825

I was at the fiesta de Gràcia tonight and heard this brass & percussion band on the street, surrounded by a massive crowd and women on stilts, and they were playing this banger that everyone was singing along to. I don’t speak Catalan and I’m only conversational in Spanish, so I don’t know what any of the lyrics were but I dug the tune. Any idea what it could have been? It sounded like a sort of anthem or traditional song that most people are very familiar with in Barcelona, Catalan, or Spain, had a vaguely Arabic sounding scale and kind of reminded me of “Marcia Religiosa” from Godfather III, but only slightly. Here’s a video I took of it. Thank you!!

None of the candidates I’ve heard about are on my ballot. I prefer to vote as Left / progressive as I can. Anyone have the scoop?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/28/uae-leaves-opec-and-opec

In case it becomes relevant, I’m an anarcho-communist that lives in the United States of America. I’m familiar with OPEC, but I don’t have enough of a grasp on OPEC or the global oil market to understand how this is likely to affect things, who it helps, who it hurts, what this might change insofar as ceasefire negotiations in Iran and Lebanon, etc.

As a Far-Leftist, of course my ultimate hope is that every leaf that falls from every tree somehow brings about the collapse of top-down capitalist civilization, but I’m more interested in what shifts this is likely to bring in the current, state-based economy and political landscape of 2026 Earth.

Thanks to those who can interpret my very simple request and offer their opinions and predictions, even those that are unpopular or unlikely.

And an advance “honey, shhh…” to those who want to turn this into yet another opportunity to be pedantic and divisive in a subreddit where, more often than not, people are just asking earnest questions and looking for earnest, relevant responses.