With the center of gravity of the inter-imperialist contradictions lying in the competition between the USA and Russia, and the unjust war in Ukraine, at the heart of Europe, being the strategic interchange of this antagonism, the basic assessment highlighted in this book is the threat of a global-scale war!

At the same time, the multiple shapes of the issue of the “abolition” of imperialism, and the search for “answers” on behalf of the proletariat and the peoples in the capitalist-imperialist system are outlined. All these are consolidated in the search for “protectors” for the peoples. A search that – either confessed or not – starts from the denial of the need and the possibility of organizing the working class as a class for itself.

The course of “preparing the conditions for World War III” can only be confronted by a mass anti-imperialist, anti-war movement of the workers and the peoples. Such a movement is inseparably bound to the overall cause of the reconstruction of the revolutionary communist movement. This is what our times demand. This is what the persistent struggles, uprisings, and outbursts of the working and popular masses, which have been intensifying across the planet for years, seek.

This bookwas completed just before Trump was elected as President of the USA. We believe that this development makes the book even more timely and useful towards its target: to contribute to the formation of the “missing” anti-imperialist, anti-war movement which constitutes a critical and urgent necessity for the working class and the peoples of the world.

Writers: Antonis Apostolakis, Nikos Papavassiliou, Panos Chountis