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.
AHMED BEN BELLAI am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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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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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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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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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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 not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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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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