This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
AHMED BEN BELLAColonialism 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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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 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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I’m optimistic because I’m pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
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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 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 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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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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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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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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