Algeria is not breaking up.
AHMED BEN BELLAEverywhere 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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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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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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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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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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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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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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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