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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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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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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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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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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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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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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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 spent 24 and a half years in prison
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