Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
AHMED BEN BELLALet 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’m optimistic because I’m pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
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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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These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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