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 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…

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…

Alfred Weiland

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…

Herman Gorter

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…