Speaking Out by Albert Camus

Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

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* And furthermore most of the time they do not even defend freedom, as soon as there is any risk in doing so.

[The Berlin Events and Us]

Lecture at the Mutualité

1953

On June 16, 1953, a workers’ revolt broke out in East Berlin, following the government’s decision to increase work rates without compensatory wage increases. Very quickly the movement spread to the rest of the country. On June 17, tens of thousands of people went on strike and gathered in the main towns of the DDR. Overtaken by events, the general secretary of the SED (United Socialist Party of Germany), Walter Ulbricht, called for Soviet troops, whose intervention left some fifty demonstrators dead and many wounded. On June 30, 1953, a meeting of support was organized at the Mutualité hall in Paris. Camus made this speech there, the text of which was published in the fifth issue of the review Témoins (spring 1954), preceded by his July 19, 1951, speech at the Casal de Catalunya in Paris commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the Spanish social revolution (see this page). The two texts together appeared under the same title: “Calendar of Freedom.”

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