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'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

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.

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

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

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

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 France

I spent 24 and a half years in prison