The Ukraine War and the Open Crisis of the Imperialist World System

Stefan Engel, a trained mechanic and today a free publicist, was Chairman of the MLPD for 37 years. He has made his theoretical work and his practical know-how in the leadership of workers' struggles available to the revolutionary working-class movement for decades, also internationally. Since 1991 Stefan Engel is head of the editorial board of Revolutionärer Weg, the theoretical organ of the MLPD. He is recognized as a Marxist-Leninist theoretician throughout the world.Gabi Fechtner, a trained toolmaker, is MLPD Chairwoman since April 2017 and thus the rst woman worker to lead a revolutionary party in Germany.Monika Gärtner-Engel is MLPD Internationalism Secretary and Main Coordinator of the revolutionary world organization ICOR. She is co-author of the book, New Perspectives for the Liberation of Women, and an acknowledged representative of the international militant women's movement.

ContentsThe Ukraine War and the Open Crisis of the Imperialist World System1. The Ukraine war and the acute danger of a Third World War2. The foreign policy of the imperialist countries in preparation for a Third World War3. Interaction between fascism and war4. Transition to global economic warfare5. The Ukraine war accelerates the development into a global environmental catastrophe6. The transition of opportunism to social-chauvinism7. A new phase of accelerated destabilization of the imperialist world system8. Active resistance against the Third World War