We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
AHMED BEN BELLAWe trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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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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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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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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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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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