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 BELLAThis has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
More Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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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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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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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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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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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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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