This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
AHMED BEN BELLAAt 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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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 not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it’s from there that all those who fought left.
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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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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 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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