This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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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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 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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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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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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I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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 spent 24 and a half years in prison
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