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.
AHMED BEN BELLAMy life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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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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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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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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 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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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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