Under systemic discrimination, women’s survival and development cannot be guaranteed. Oppressed and exploited working women’s human rights and dignity are ruthlessly trampled upon by war and violence. In times of barbarism, women, along with children, suffer the most and are subjected to humiliations more miserable than death itself. Imperialist exploitation and plunder know no borders. Women within imperialist countries are made the targets of monopoly capital’s exploitation, are forced to accept capitalist ideology, and are brainwashed by an ideology of domination that seeks to divide Third World women and women in imperialist countries. Women living under people’s governments that truly guarantee women’s rights are also constantly threatened by imperialist war.
Humanity now stands at a crossroads between independence and subjugation. The imperialist forces, sustained by invasion and plunder, are unleashing a frenzy of war in order to avert the unprecedented crisis that is engulfing human society and driving it toward a world war. Imperialism—the culprit behind the unprecedented devastation of World War 1 and World War 2—is today recklessly provoking World War 3. Throughout human history, the ruling classes have always reduced women to spoils of war, wartime laborers, and war slaves during times of war. Anti-imperialism and self-determination are the path to life and peace, while pro-imperialism and subjugation are the path to death and war.
We must raise high the banner of anti‑imperialism and self‑determination and carry forward the struggle. The invasions and massacres, domination and plunder, oppression and exploitation taking place across the world today confirm the truth that national and class discrimination cannot be abolished so long as imperialism exists. It is imperialism, fascism, violence, and war. Progressive women around the world must refuse to cooperate with imperialist war propaganda, arms production, and military actions, and must go further by mobilizing broad layers of working women into the anti‑war, anti‑imperialist, and anti‑fascist struggle. All women must rise up as one in the struggle to eradicate imperialism and fascism.
“Divide and rule” is one of the basic tactics of the imperialist forces. They divide women and men within both imperialist countries and colonized nations, inciting hatred between them and obstructing unity and solidarity. In the same vein, imperialist forces smear socialist and anti-imperialist states as “human rights violators” and invoke so-called “women’s rights” as a pretext for sanctions, isolation, and strangulation. The extreme feminism promoted by some women is nothing more than a form of “female chauvinism”, which distorts social problems into biological conflicts between women and men, leading the women’s movement in a misguided direction. The same goes for machismo on the other side. We reject the false propaganda carried out under the banner of “women’s rights” by imperialist and opportunist forces, and we will expose and crush their reactionary essence.
Women, as equal participants in revolution and construction, have long advanced the women’s liberation movement through bloodshed and struggle against all forms of domination throughout history. Especially since the 20th century, they have played a vital role in resisting imperialism, fighting for liberation from colonial rule, and building new societies—and today, they continue to stand at the frontlines of struggle, boldly shaping their own destiny. Only on the path of justice—toward national liberation, class liberation, and human liberation, the shared aspiration of all humankind—can women’s emancipation and the social liberation of women be achieved. We will continue to strengthen international unity and solidarity, and continue fighting for women’s dignity and rights, as well as for international peace and self-determination.
October 21, 2025, Caracas
World Anti-Imperialist Women’s Platform
