[3] Then Yazbek joined the opposition groups against the Ottoman rule in the region,[3] and Akl launched a newspaper, Al Bayrak, in 1911.
[5][6] In the period between 1922 and 1924, he was one of the editors of a semi-weekly labor newspaper entitled Al-Ṣaḥafi al-Taʼih (Arabic: The Wandering Journalist) based in Zahlé, Lebanon.
[5] He and others in the central committee of the party launched a weekly newspaper entitled Al-Insaniyyah (Arabic: Humanity) which was one of the early communist publications in Lebanon.
[5][6] In the aftermath of this incident Yazbek left Lebanon for France in July 1925[6] and began to work for L'Humanité newspaper in Paris.
[8] He and Artin Madoyan were both arrested by the French mandatory forces in the late 1926 and imprisoned on the island of Arwad until 1928.