Algeria is not breaking up.
AHMED BEN BELLA
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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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I 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.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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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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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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