Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies.
AHMED BEN BELLAIt is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won’t be easy.
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Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16.
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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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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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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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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’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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 spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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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 not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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