Algeria is not breaking up..

I spent 24 and a half years in prison.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there..

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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 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….

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

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