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Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries – like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain – to occupy countries outside of Europe.

Ahmed Ben Bella

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I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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Changed Drive Motivation Ninty Now Same Year
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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Agreed Authority Coup Everywhere Freedom Leader Military National Struggle Triumph
I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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Left Marxist Myself Place
Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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Born Life Origin Parents
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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Country General Group Industrial Motor Multinational Nestle Weigh
In two years, there were 22 military coups d’etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d’etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
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Country Essential Military World Year
Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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Doe Include Loser Peace Winner
In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well.
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Bad Create Misery Past Poverty South Speke Victim
My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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Country Liberation Participate Special Struggle
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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Combat Instant Life Motivation Singer Single Started Year
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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Army Country Fight Fighting French Liberation Movement Organization
The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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Algeria Colonisation Country Listed Long Time Year
With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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Bringing Country Engaged Fight Fighting Freedom Government National
Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it’s the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.
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Beginning Capital Capitalist Development Global
I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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Action Community Conviction Left Orientated Religion
We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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Arranged Created Network Reach Trained Weapon
This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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Become Companies Global Good Manifest Multinational Serve System
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies.
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Army Colonialism Foreign Form Permanent Power Primitive Repressive Setting Year
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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Country Easy Lawful Obvious State War
We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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Country Five People Size Some Ten Territory Throughout Time
Algeria is not breaking up.
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Break Up Breaking Promise
I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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Four Half Prison Spent Twenty Year
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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Agree Country Little May Unity Vain World
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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Age Cities Country Live Peasant Son Young
At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
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Barely Colonisation Country Moment Overcome Precise Several Supported
Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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Different Once Parties Party Power
I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
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Liberation Likewise Organizer Participate Struggle

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