Bulus Farah was a
Palestinian trade unionist
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and Employee ben ...
who founded the
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'', ar, اتحاد النقابات والجمعيات العربية, later known as the Arab Workers' Congress) was an Arab trade un ...
in 1942. Farah went to work 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 ...
workshops in 1925 as a fifteen-year-old apprentice and is also known as the author of a book on the railway workers of the post-
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
period entitled ''Min al-'uthmaniyya ila al-dawla al-'ibriyya'' (Endelman, 1997, p. 263). He was one of the first Arab leaders of the
Palestine Communist Party to go to study in Moscow at the
Communist University of the Toilers of the East.
[Merav Mack (2015) Orthodox and Communist: A History of a Christian Community in Mandate Palestine and Israel, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 42:4, p.394]
References
*Endelman, Todd M. (1997). ''Comparing Jewish Societies''. University of Michigan Press.
Palestinian activists
Living people
Communist University of the Toilers of the East alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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