Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands (AAUD)

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

Rothko painting

German Workers on Strike

We and German Syndicalism

By the German Council Communist AAU [Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union or General Workers' Union], this article sketches out their general disagreement…

Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung

It's about the Cause

A short anti-critique by the Berlin Tendency of the KAPD directed towards the AAUE's critique of the "party" nature of KAPD. Originally published…

The Revolutionary Contribution of Paul Mattick

Review of Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick by Garry Roth (Haymarket Books/Historical Materialism Series).

The KAPD and the proletarian movement – Jacques Camatte

A 1971 essay on the KAPD, its positive features (its break with the ideology and practice of social…

Jan Appel - Communist Bulletin Group

A short biography of Jan Appel, a German council communist.

Left-wing splinter parties in the Weimar Republic

A 1974 dissertation on various left-wing radical groups in Weimar Republic era Germany.

AAUD/AAUD-E reader

A reader I compiled from various texts online of the AAUD/AAUD-E.

The Second Congress of the KAPD

Article from Revolutionary Perspectives #16 (Series 3), the journal of the Communist Workers’ Organisation.

The workers councils as organisational foundation of communist production - GIK

A summary of the basic theoretical foundations of the work 'Fundamental principles of communist production and distribution' by the Dutch German left group GIK.

Paul Mattick and Council Communism - Claudio Pozzoli

Notes by Claudio Pozzoli on Paul Mattick, council communism and in particular its differences with left communism.

Fig 1. Hans Schmitz - Mass

Art as a weapon: Franz Seiwert and the Cologne progressives - Martyn Everett

An account of Franz Seiwert and the 'Cologne Progressives', a group or circle of artists who…

The councilist movement in Germany (1914-1935): A history of the AAUD-E tendency

Article tracing the origins and theoretical development of the 'unitary' current of the General…