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.
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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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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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The 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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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 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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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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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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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 am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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