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2 unusual facts about Palestine Communist Party


Jaffa riots

On the night of 1 May 1921, the Jewish Communist Party (precursor of the Palestine Communist Party) distributed Arabic and Yiddish fliers calling for the toppling of British rule and the establishing a "Soviet Palestine".

Palestinian Communist Party

Palestine Communist Party, formed in 1923 by the merger of the first two parties


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.

Fu'ad Nassar

Joined the Palestinian Communist Party.

Provisional State Council

There were 37 members representing all sides of the Jewish political spectrum, from the Revisionists to the Communists.


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