We prove that many of the results of the log minimal model program hold for threefolds over fields of characteristic 𝑝 > 5 which are not necessarily perfect. This includes the existence of flips, the cone theorem, the contraction theorem for birational extremal rays and the existence of log minimal models. As well as pertaining to the geometry of fibrations of relative dimension 3 over algebraically closed fields, they have applications to tight closure in dimension 4. M S C 2 0 2 0 14D10, 14E30, 14J30 (primary) Contents