This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
AHMED BEN BELLAThe 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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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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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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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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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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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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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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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 spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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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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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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