The Proclamation of the 121 , subtitle “Declaration on the right to insubordination in the war of Algeria”, is signed by intellectuals, academics and artists and is published the September 6th 1960 in the magazine Truth-Freedom .

Contents of proclamation

According to its own terms, he seeks to inform the French citizens of the protest movement against the Guerre of Algeria. The 121 criticizes there the ambiguity attitude of France with respect to the Algerian Mouvement of independence, by supporting the fact that the “oppressed Algerian population” only seeks to be recognized “like independent community”. On the basis of the report of the collapse of the colonial Empires, they put forward the political role of the army in the conflict, in particular denouncing the Militarisme and the Torture, which goes “against the democratic institutions”.

The proclamation finishes on its words:

the undersigneds, declare:

We respect and judge justified the refusal to take the weapons against the Algerian people.

We respect and consider justified the control of the French who estimate to have to them to provide assistance and protection to the Algerians oppressed in the name of French people.

the cause of the Algerian people, which contribute in a decisive way to ruin the colonial system, is the cause of all the free men.

The list of the signatories