New Perspectives for the Liberation of Women - A Polemical Treatise

Women have developed a new self-confidence owing particularly to their involvement in social production and in the different social movements. This has again enhanced public awareness off the struggle for their liberation. The two authors, Monika Gärtner-Engel and Stefan Engel, intend their polemical treatise as a contribution to this societal discussion. At the same time they take an uncompromising stand for the liberation of women in a society freed from exploitation and oppression.

Stefan Engel was born in 1954. As a trained mechanic he worked in several large factories. He is a free publicist today. He has been politically active since 1968 and has exercised leading functions in the Marxist-Leninist and working-class movement in Germany since 1975.

More and more he has also taken on tasks in the coordination of the international revolutionary and working-class movement. His most important theoretical contributions are contained, inter alia, in the books, The Struggle Over the Mode of Thinking in the Working-Class Movement and Class Struggle and the Struggle for the Liberation of Women.
The book, Dawn of the International Socialist Revolution, follows up on the topic of his best-known book to date, Twilight of the Gods - Götterdämmerung over the "New World Order”.

Monika Gärtner-Engel was born in 1952 in Bad-Boll. She is a professional graduate teacher and mother of three grown daughters. It embodies itself the lively commitment to a militant women's movement, estimates and maintains numerous contacts with the international women's movement.

In 1995 she participated in the World Conference on Women in Beijing UN. She is the initiator of the Women's Political Counsel, which is now the largest independently organized women's political event in Germany, and the World Conference of rank women, which took place in March 2011 in Caracas / Venezuela. Together with Stefan Engel is the author of the book New Perspectives for the Liberation of Women - A Polemical Treatise". 2008 Monika Gärtner-Engel was elected deputy chairman of the MLPD.

She has extensive experience in various sides of the political work of the MLPD. Among others in the field of cooperation with self-help organizations and alliances. Meanwhile it was three times chosen for the bipartisan coalition AUF Gelsenkirchen in the city council. It represents a style of politics that is incorruptible, competent and democratic.