I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
AHMED BEN BELLAWhen I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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 am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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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 was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
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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 accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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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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