Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
AHMED BEN BELLAI am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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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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At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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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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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 am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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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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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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