I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
AHMED BEN BELLAThis has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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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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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 am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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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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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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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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.
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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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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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