The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
AHMED BEN BELLAThis has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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 is not breaking up.
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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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I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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 was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
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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’m optimistic because I’m pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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