Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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 spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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In two years, there were 22 military coups d’etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d’etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
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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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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 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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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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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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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