I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
AHMED BEN BELLAI’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
AHMED BEN BELLAThe French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
AHMED BEN BELLAI am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
AHMED BEN BELLAI 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.
AHMED BEN BELLAIn 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 BELLAYes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
AHMED BEN BELLAAlgeria 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 BELLAThose who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
AHMED BEN BELLAColonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries – like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain – to occupy countries outside of Europe.
AHMED BEN BELLAI am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
AHMED BEN BELLAI accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
AHMED BEN BELLAWe trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
AHMED BEN BELLAYes, 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.
AHMED BEN BELLAPeace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
AHMED BEN BELLAThis phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
AHMED BEN BELLAWe were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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