Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands (AAUD)

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

Rothko painting

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…

What does the Communist Workers Union want? - KAUD

1932 statement of the Communist Workers Union of Germany (Kommunistische Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands) on its perspective and purpose.

Guidelines of the AAUD-E

Guidelines of the General Workers' Union Unitary Organisation, as presented at the Fourth Conference of the General Workers' Union of Germany in…