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

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word

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

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. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

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.

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.