I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
AHMED BEN BELLAWe trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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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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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries – like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain – to occupy countries outside of Europe.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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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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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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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