World War 3 is in full swing. Triggered by the war in Ukraine in 2022, World War 3 is spreading to Taiwan and South Korea and through Palestine in 2023. Today, the probability of contagion in Eastern Europe and an outbreak of war in Eastern Asia is increasingly likely. The current situation, where the war in Palestine is expanding into the Middle East War, is definitely sparking wars in East Asia.

Delegates from 40 organizations and individuals from 25 countries gathered in Rome on October 27 - 28, 2023, to discuss the causes of the current war in Ukraine, the war’s impact on international peace, the dangers facing our people and the tasks of the movement for a fair and permanent peace.

For almost ten years now, genocide has been carried out against us by the fascist neo-Nazi Ukraine that emerged in 2014 as a result of an armed coup carried out under the leadership of the West. They are trying to destroy us precisely because we refuse to betray and trample on our history, culture, and divest of the Russian language that is common to all of us and native to the majority. Our public organizations and political parties, and the media were banned by the fascist state. And recently, our traditional Orthodox Church was placed under a direct ban.

The production of economic and social crises is an inherent feature of the brutal and unjust system of capitalism based on private ownership of the means of production. Imperialists resort to criminal methods to temporarily escape from crises. They fire workers, allocate financial resources to produce weapons and fund war, and in this way, they start wars to dominate new markets and expand political and economic hegemony. In the ocean of ​blood of children and innocent people, they hunt for their target goldfish.

I speak on behalf of the International Anti-Fascist Information Center, which was founded this year in Moscow by anti-fascists from various countries. We send you the warmest greetings and wish the congress every success.

Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism, has been the source of evil including war, slaughter, poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction, and has driven humanity to the brink of extinction, over the past 100 years. However, in recent decades, signs of collapse of the imperialist world system have become clear and the pace of collapse is increasing.

The "Federal Association of Workers' Photography" (Bundesverband Arbeiterfotografie) supports the peace conference "For a true and just peace - stop the third world war". It demands - not only for Germany: "NATO out" and "Get out of NATO", in particular "NATO out of Eastern Europe!" Its complete declaration follows.

On October 27th and 28th, anti-imperialist organisations and parties from around the world are meeting in Rome for the Peace Conference – under the banner “Stop the Third World War – for a true and a just peace”. We believe this conference, growing out of opposition to NATO’s reckless proxy war against Russia, is an important step towards building a new internationalist anti-imperialist movement. The letter below, addressed to the those attending the conference, was endorsed by classconscious.org, the LCFI, Bolshevik Group South Korea and the Socialist Unity Party.

Two sentences of the statement at the beginning: "We want to achieve, in alliance with peace forces in other NATO countries, that NATO, as the most aggressive war alliance in the world, is banned from the whole of Europe." And: "We oppose war in all its forms - military as well as those waged by economic, biological and psychological means." This is the way peace movement has to go and the peace conference "For a true and just peace - stop the third world war" already goes.

The organized workers’ movement world over has struggled, not only to fight some of these most recent offensives of the ruling class, but even to properly recognize them as such. Our goal is to overcome this. Simultaneously, we agitate with a socialist perspective from within the diffuse movement which has arisen in Germany against our bourgeoisie's politics of crisis, waged primarily under these three banners.