I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
AHMED BEN BELLAColonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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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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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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 am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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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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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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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies.
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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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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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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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