Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.

Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.

At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.

Under Roca's leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro's revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party's long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.

In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.

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  • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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    4 months ago

    Bad/no sleep continuing to wreck me

    Solidarity to all other Hexbears who can't fucking sleep right dog-screm

    • Breath_Of_The_Snake [they/them, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      It’s not a cure, but I’ve been having some degree of success by stacking melatonin, lions mane, and St. John’s wort. I’ve tried removing parts of the stack but the success seems to be in combination. Once I get paid I’m going to try adding kava extract and hope that completes it.

      Disclaimer: this is also probably a “fuck your liver” stack.

      • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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        4 months ago

        Oh yes, I also have a bunch of substances to try to sleep properly

        My mains are melatonin (ofc ofc), magnesium, and L-theanine but I haven't been using lately cuz sometimes it randomly backfires and makes me sleep even worse :(

        Be careful, does sound pretty harsh on the liver

        Kava is legit but it might make you feel really foggy long after you wake up, at least that was my experience

        May have to try your approach sometime

        • Breath_Of_The_Snake [they/them, comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          I need to try adding magnesium and LT, could probably cut the St. John’s (the main source of liver stress). Thanks for the idea!

          thanks for the warning about the kava fog, I’ll have to start experimenting with it on nights off.

    • Darthsenio_Mall [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      I was on a multi-month streak of sleeping healthily but then i got food poisoning from some frozen apple empanadas that gave me vertigo for like two days and now I've gone feral and haven't gotten out of bed before 7pm in weeks. Hope you get back to that restful shuteye soon though bear-peekin