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 BELLAAlgeria is not breaking up.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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 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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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’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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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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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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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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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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