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 on the railway workers of the post-World War I period entitled Min al-'uthmaniyya ila al-dawla al-'ibriyya. 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.