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, Arabic: اتحاد النقابات والجمعيات العربية‎, later known as the Arab Workers' Congress) was an Arab trade union organization formed in 1942 in Mandatory Palestine 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 1,500 members, including workers in the Haifa area petroleum sector, Haifa port, and the British military camp.

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, Arabic: اتحاد النقابات والجمعيات العربية‎, later known as the Arab Workers' Congress) was an Arab trade union organization formed in 1942 in Mandatory Palestine 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 1,500 members, including workers in the Haifa area petroleum sector, Haifa port, and the British military camp.