Freier Dundorfischer Gewerkschaftsbund

The FDGB was a largely syndicalist political party in Dundorf that was formed May 4302 and dissolved in November 4310. It's successor party is the Volks Kommunistische Partei Dundorf, formed after the FDGB's second and final leadership elections.

Formation
The Freier Dundorfischer Gewerkschaftsbund (FDGB) was a political party formed in May 4302 by Otto Steindorf, a syndicalist, and former members of various hardline socialist parties.

4302-4306
The FDGB won 30 seats in the elections of 4303, after having announced a clear and explicit agenda.However, their attempts to pass legislation were struck down by other parties of Dundorf. Criticisms began to arise as to the willingness and reliability of the FDGB to represent their agenda. Their agenda itself was under fire, for some of its "lofty" goals, such as the shortening of the Bundestag from 500 to 250 seats, reorganizing governmental structure so that the Federal and State levels were now democratically governed trade and labor unions, and passing heavy regulation and collectivization reforms. In 4306, the FDGB gained 16 seats in the election, bolstering their size in the Bundestag to 46. The FDGB then named candidates for the 4309 election, and passed their agenda to vote several years early.

Election of 4309
The FDGB lost 11 seats in the snap elections of 4309, causing much infighting inside the party, and further criticisms from the outside. No legislature was passed, as they held their first leadership elections in November of 4310, which would ultimately be the party's last.

Leadership Elections of 4310 and Downfall
In November, the first leadership elections were held for the FDGB. It was largely expected for Otto Steindorf's faction, the syndicalists, to win. But surprisingly, a smaller faction, the Metzist Communists, had won the vote for new leadership. Its leader, Eike Schäfer, a former member of the SED during the time of the DDR, conducted his victory speech and did what many others did—criticize the FDGB's shortcomings. His comments shocked the syndicalists of the old guard, and the building quickly descended into shouting and bickering. Once the crowd was stabilized, Schäfer laid down the future of the FDGB. Upon calling of an impromptu Party Congress, the syndicalist faction, and its sister faction, the anarcho-syndicalists, were to be absorbed by the Metzists. Smaller factions, such as radical socialists, socialists, and social democrats were all dissolved. The totalist faction absorbed most of these wings. Afterwards, Schäfer proclaimed the FDGB uncompatible with the new party ideology, and ordered its dissolution. Many former syndicalists now fill the ranks, Steindorf included.