Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands (AAUD)

Content by or about the left-communist Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands (General Workers' Union of Germany; AAUD).

Extracts from the guidelines of the AAUD

Extracts from the December 1920 Guidelines of the General Workers' Union of Germany

Program of the AAUD

Program of the General Workers' Union of Germany, adopted at their third national conference in Leipzig, December 12-14, 1920.

The communist left in Germany 1918-1921 - Gilles Dauvé and Denis Authier

A analysis of the revolutionary movements in Europe at the end of World War I, their contradictions…

Weiland, Alfred, 1906-1978

A short biography of council communist, organiser of underground network, Alfred Weiland, kidnapped by the East German state in the post war…

The lessons of the “March action” - Herman Gorter

The Lessons of the “March Action” - Gorter’s last letter to Lenin

Reimers, Otto, 1902-1984

Biography of German anarchist Otto Reimers, an engineering worker who tirelessly agitated for the anarchist movement throughout the reign of the Nazi regime and into the post-war years.

1919-1945: The Proletarischer Zeitgeist

A short history of the radical German workers' newspaper Proletarischer Zeitgeist from its birth in the AAUE union through its political…