Birth: NULL/NULL/1917 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Palestinian politician of Iraqi roots; one of the first founders of the Democratic Front in the late 1960s; began his political activity with the Arab nationalist trend in Iraq and joined the Baath Party in the second half of the 1950s; helped establish the Arab Workers’ Movement in 1961 in Iraq; during that period he left to study in London, and was influenced by his presence in Britain with the new Trotskyist and revolutionary trends, but did not complete his studies in economics and returned to Iraq to attend the college of Economics and Political Science at the time; founded with a group of comrades the Labor Organization in 1964 that adopted Marxism; volunteered in the Palestinian resistance in 1968; entered the Occupied Territories after the Oslo Accords in 1993, where there was an attempt on his life during the shelling of his house by Israeli helicopters; member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP); member of the Palestinian Legislative Council of the Front, where he heads the “alternative” list, which brings together several left-wing Palestinian parties.
