Julián Gorkin

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gómez and the second or maternal family name is García-Ribera.

Julián Gómez García-Ribera in 1925

Julián Gómez García-Ribera, better known as Julián Gorkin (January 1901 – 8 August 1987), was a Spanish revolutionary socialist, writer and a central leader of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) during the Spanish Civil War. He was a writer of many books on political and cultural themes, as well as novels and some plays. 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.^[1]

By the time he returned to Paris in 1948 he had become an anti-communist. From 1953 to 1963 (with a brief interlude in 1959) he was editor in Paris of the periodical Cuadernos published by the CIA front group Congress for Cultural Freedom".^[2]

Political writings

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

References

1. "Archivo Julián Gorkin (1901-1987)". Marxists Internet Archive (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 February 2023.
2. Ruiz Galvete, Marta. (2006). Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura: anticomunismo y guerra fría en América Latina El Argonauta español, 3.

External links

• Julián Gorkin Archive at Marxists Internet Archive
• Marc Ferri Ramírez, "Julián Gorkin, la vida de un luchador"