The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
AHMED BEN BELLAI 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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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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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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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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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 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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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 accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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 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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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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