Workers League (Lebanon)

Workers League (Lebanon)

The Worker's League is a Lebanese pro-Syrian political party founded in 1968 by a group of AUB students and is led by former Chouf MP Zaher Khatib.

The party promotes communism and Arab nationalism, it has had members in the Lebanese Parliament on several occasions. From 2000 to 2005 their member Nasser Qandil represented Beirut 3 electoral district. The party also had a military force, "Qoowat Zafer el Khatib", during the Lebanese civil war which had considerable force and was part of Kamal Jumblatt's Lebanese National Movement.


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