When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open..

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America..

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than b….

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies.….

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or….

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left..

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 ….

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continu….

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years..

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….

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 M….

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers..

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 foug….

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. Thi….

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy..

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. I'….

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of E….

My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberat….

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….

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

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 p….