When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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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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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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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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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 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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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 accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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