The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
AHMED BEN BELLAI accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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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 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 spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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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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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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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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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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