Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union – Einheitsorganisation
The Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union – Einheitsorganisation was an anti-parliamentarian Council communist organisation established in Germany in October 1921.
Otto Rühle was involved in setting up the AAUE as an organisation which combined the political and economic aspirations of communist workers in a single organisation. This occurred following his trip to Russia as a representative of the Communist Workers' Party of Germany at the Second World Congress of the Communist International. He travelled around Russia before the Congress and formed a very negative view of the Bolshevik regime. He advocated a very different way to realise a communist revolution which came to be adopted by the AAUE:
