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.
AHMED BEN BELLAWe trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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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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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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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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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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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 accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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