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 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 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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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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 am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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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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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 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 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 spent 24 and a half years in prison
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