Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands (AAUD)

A submission from Guy B. Askew criticizing the AAU, a German council communist influenced workers’ organization. Originally appeared in the General Organization Bulletin (December 1931)

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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