Julián Gorkin

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 edit

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 edit

^ "Archivo Julián Gorkin (1901-1987)". Marxists Internet Archive (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^ 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 edit

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

[Marxists_Internet_Archive-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.

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