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.
AHMED BEN BELLAWhen I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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’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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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 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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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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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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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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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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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 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 am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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