We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
AHMED BEN BELLAI spent 24 and a half years in prison
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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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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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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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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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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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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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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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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