I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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.
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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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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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These 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.
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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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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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