FATULS, the Federation of Arab Trade Unions and Labor Societies (''Ittihad al-Niqabat wa'l-Jam'iyyat al-'Arabiyya'', ar, اتحاد النقابات والجمعيات العربية, later known as the Arab Workers' Congress) was an Arab trade union organization formed in 1942 in

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...

Marxist Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

activists led by

Bulus Farah Bulus Farah was a Palestinian trade unionist who founded the Federation of Arab Trade Unions and Labor Societies in 1942. Farah went to work in the Haifa workshops in 1925 as a fifteen-year-old apprentice and is also known as the author of a book ...

(a former member of the Palestine Communist Party), who split away from the

Palestine Arab Workers Society The Palestine Arab Workers' Society (PAWS - ''Jam'iyyat al-'Ummal al-'Arabiyya al-Filastiniyya''), established in 1925, was the main Arab labor organization in the British Mandate of Palestine, with its headquarters in Haifa. The Palestine Arab ...

in 1942. By the end of that year it had recruited around 1,500 members, including workers in the

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

area petroleum sector, Haifa port, and the British military camp. FATULS concentrated on "shopfloor" issues and argued that only

socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...

revolution would address the workers' needs by liberating

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from the imperialist stranglehold. It was allied to the National Liberation League. The Federation's newspaper ''

al-Ittihad Al-Ittihad (Arabic: الاتحاد "The Union"), sometimes transliterated as Al-Etihad or Al-Ettihad may refer to: Sports Football Libya *Al-Ittihad Club (Tripoli), a football club based in Bab Ben Gashier * Al Ittihad Gheryan, a football club bas ...

'' was distributed widely and read by the overwhelming majority of labor. The organization was banned following Jordan's annexation of the West Bank in 1950.Connell, 2001, p. 237.

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*Aruri, Naseer Hasan (1972). ''Jordan: A Study in Political Development (1923-1965)''. Springer. * Beinin, Joel (2001). ''Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *Connell, Dan (2001). ''Rethinking Revolution: New Strategies for Democracy & Social Justice: The Experiences of Eritrea, South Africa, Palestine and Nicaragua''. The Red Sea Press. *Younis, Mona M. (2000). ''Liberation and Democratization: The South African & Palestinian National Movements''. University of Minnesota Press. {{ISBN, 0-8166-3299-5

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