The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
AHMED BEN BELLAIn 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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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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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 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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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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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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 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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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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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