Defunct The Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union – Einheitsorganisation (AAUE or AAU-E) (English: General Workers' Union – Unified Organization) was an anti-parliamentarian council communist organisation established in Germany in October 1921.
It was a split from the General Workers' Union of Germany (AAUD).
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 (einheits) organisation.
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: