This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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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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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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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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’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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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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 was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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