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When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.


Ahmed Ben Bella  Ahmed Ben Bella
Tags: Freedom  Time  Struggle  Result  Leaders 

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Ahmed Ben Bella (Arabic: أحمد بن بلّة Aḥmad bin Billah; 25 December 1916 – 11 April 2012) was an Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary who was the first President of Algeria from 1963 to 1965.

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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

    Ahmed Ben Bella  Ahmed Ben Bella   
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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. 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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 Tags: Good Past Poverty Bad Now Manifest
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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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 Tags: Big More Egypt Like Scale Much
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It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.

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 Tags: Support Help Colonialism Liberation
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

    Ahmed Ben Bella  Ahmed Ben Bella   
 Tags: I Am Left Actions Convictions Very
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

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 Tags: Myself I Am Place Left Marxist Am
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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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 Tags: Beginning Development Why Say Only
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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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 Tags: Freedom Time Struggle Result Leaders
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