Algeria is not breaking up.
AHMED BEN BELLAWe were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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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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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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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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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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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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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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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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