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 BELLAI’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 BELLAThe 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.
AHMED BEN BELLAI am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
AHMED BEN BELLALet us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
AHMED BEN BELLAI am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
AHMED BEN BELLAThese 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.
AHMED BEN BELLAYes, 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.
AHMED BEN BELLAI 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.
AHMED BEN BELLAWith my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
AHMED BEN BELLAAlgeria 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.
AHMED BEN BELLAYes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
AHMED BEN BELLAIt is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won’t be easy.
AHMED BEN BELLAI spent 24 and a half years in prison
AHMED BEN BELLAMy life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
AHMED BEN BELLAThis phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
AHMED BEN BELLAI am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
AHMED BEN BELLA