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Federation of Arab Trade Unions and Labor Societies



FATULS, the Federation of Arab Trade Unions and Labor Societies (Ittihad al-Niqabat wa'l-Jam'iyyat al-'Arabiyya, later known as the Arab Workers' Congress) was formed by Marxist activists led by Bulus Farah (a former member of the Palestine Communist Party) who split away from the Palestine Arab Workers Society in 1942. By the end of that year it had recruited around 1500 members, including workers in the Haifa area petroleum sector, Haifa port, and the British military camp (Beinin, 2001, p.



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