About Ahmed Ben Bella: Ahmed Ben Bella was an Algerian socialist soldier and revolutionary who was the first President of Algeria from 1963 to 1965.
I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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.
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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.
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 all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of ...
Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power.
Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.
