When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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.
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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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
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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 am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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.
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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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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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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 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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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