This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
AHMED BEN BELLAWe trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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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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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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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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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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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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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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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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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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