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 BELLAThe French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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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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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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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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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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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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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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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 am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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