This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
AHMED BEN BELLAThe French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d’etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
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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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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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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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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