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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.

Ahmed Ben Bella

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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Country General Group Industrial Motor Multinational Nestle Weigh
Algeria is not breaking up.
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Break Up Breaking Promise
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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Agreed Authority Coup Everywhere Freedom Leader Military National Struggle Triumph
I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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Left Marxist Myself Place
We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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Country Five People Size Some Ten Territory Throughout Time
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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Colonialism Country Drive Ideas Occupy West Western
Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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Born Life Origin Parents
I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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Four Half Prison Spent Twenty Year
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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Participate People Something Support Thinking
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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Country Essential Military World Year
I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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Action Community Conviction Left Orientated Religion
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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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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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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Become Companies Global Good Manifest Multinational Serve System
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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Age Cities Country Live Peasant Son Young
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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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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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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