This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
AHMED BEN BELLAThis phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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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 accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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