This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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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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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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 am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d’etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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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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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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In 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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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 am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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