This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
AHMED BEN BELLAIn 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.
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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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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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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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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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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 accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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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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