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.

When Abdel Nasser brought Ben Bella to speak for the first time to an Egyptian audience he broke into tears because he could not speak standard Arabic. Ahmed Ben Bella (Arabic: أحمد بن بلّة‎‎; 25 December 1916 – 11 April 2012) was an Algerian soldier and revolutionary who was the first President of Algeria from 1963 to 1965. His arrest led to the resignation of Alain Savary opposed to Guy Mollet's policies.