The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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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This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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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 am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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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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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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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 accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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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