Julián Gorkin

Julián Gómez García, 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.

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 (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.

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 (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