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I am not a Marxist but I am resolutely of the left. I am an Arab Muslim. I have always supported movements of the left and socialist countries such as Cuba, China, the Soviet Union who drove the anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist battle.

— Ahmed Ben Bella

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Revolutions are very complex. Nothing is easy. Few people want to risk their necks.

I was always religious but I feel it more today because our epoch demands it.

The struggle for liberation was terrible. We were bruised and wounded by colonialism.

Far from denying our option, Islam identifies itself with equality in the minds of the masses, and therefore moves towards socialism.

At that time, the fight was for the liberation of Algeria from the French. Now there is a fight to liberate the world from globalization.

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