Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
AHMED BEN BELLAYes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16.
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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won’t be easy.
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Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
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These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
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Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d’etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
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The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
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