Julián Gorkin


Julián Gómez García, better known as Julián Gorkin, was a Spanish revolutionary socialist, writer and a central leader of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification during the Spanish Civil War.

Biography

Gorkin was born in Valencia.
After the Spanish Civil War, he escaped to Mexico where he became a part of the strong anti-Stalinist socialist community there. He helped obtain visas for Victor Serge and his son Vlady to enter Mexico when they had to escape from the Nazis invading France.
By the time he returned to Paris in 1948 he had become an anti-communist. From 1953 to 1963 he was editor in Paris of the periodical Cuadernos published by the CIA front group Congress for Cultural Freedom.
Gorkin died in Paris. He was a writer of many books on political and cultural themes, as well as novels and some plays.

Political writings

Canibales politicos , Ediciones Quetzal, Mexico, 1941Ainsi fut assassiné Trotski, Editions Self, Paris, 1948La Vie et la Mort en U.R.S.S., Les Iles d'Or, Paris, 1950Comunista en Espana y antistalinista en la U.R.S.S., Editorial Guarania, Mexico, 1952Destin du XXe siècle, Les Iles d'Or, Paris, 1954Marx y la Russia de ayer y de hoy, Editorial Bases, Buenos Aires, 1956España, primer ensayo de democracia popular, Biblioteca de la Libertad, Buenos Aires, 1961El Imperio Soviético, Editions Claridad, Buenos Aires, 1969L'assassinat de Trotski, Julliard, Paris, 1970, et Livre de Poche, Paris, 1973, Prix Voltaire 1970El proceso de Moscú en Barcelona, Aymá S.A. Editora, Barcelona, 1973El revolucionario profesional, Aymá S.A. Editora, Barcelona, 1975Les communistes contre la révolution espagnole, Belfond, Paris, 1978