I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
AHMED BEN BELLAMy life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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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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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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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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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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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 am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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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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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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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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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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