In the post-Nakba period a large number of Palestinian anti-colonial organisations and secular institutions were established. Several of these revolutionary bodies predated and anticipated the founding of the PLO in 1964 and these included the Palestinian Student Union in Cairo (1952), the General Union of Palestinian Students (1959), the first group of Fateh (Palestinian National Liberation Movement), founded in 1959 around an organ called Filastinuna (Our Palestine), the Palestinian Women’s League (1963) and the General Union of Palestinian Workers (1963).

The national bodies created in the post-Nakba period included:

• All-Palestine Government (Hukumat ‘Umum Filastin’) in Gaza on 1 October 1948.

• The Palestinian Student Union set up in Cairo in the early 1950s, led by Yasir Arafat.

• Fateh (Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini; Palestinian National Liberation Movement) was founded in 1959. Its first underground magazine which began to appear monthly in 1959 – under the editorship of Khalil al-Wazir (1935‒1988), a refugee from al-Ramla – was called Filastinuna, Nida al-Hayat (Our Palestine, the Call to Life).

• The General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS), established in Cairo in 1959, becoming part of the PLO in 1969.