On the 8th, the World Anti-Imperialist Women’s Platform and the Women’s committee of the People’s Democracy Party (PDP) held a rally in front of the US Embassy in Seoul, South Korea.
Participants chanted the slogans “Free Cilia” “Down with imperialism” and Poet Ok Hyo-jeong recited the poem.
Participants read aloud the statement and then sang “The Internationale.”
The following is the full text of the statement:
Down with imperialist violations of women’s rights and the gravest war crimes!
Women across the world are enduring profound suffering as their dignity and lives are violated by the aggression and exploitation of US imperialism. The Trump administration’s assault on women’s rights began with the new year, marked by the forcible seizure and illegal detention of Cilia Flores—as the ‘first combatant’—alongside the actions taken against Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela’s anti-imperialist popular government. Cilia Flores, a loyal ally of Maduro, leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, suffered serious injuries such as a rib fracture during the abduction. Nevertheless, she boldly declared her innocence, the “January 3 incident” as an illegal attack by the US, and showed unbreakable resolve and dignity. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has intensified the blockade against Cuba following its actions toward Venezuela, placing a crushing burden on the Cuban people. Due to the total embargo on oil imports, it is reported that more than 22,800 pregnant women and over 61,000 infants have suffered fatal consequences.
The greatest victims of imperialist aggression and massacres are women and children. On February 28, the US and Israel invaded Iran. On the first day of the war, these imperialist beasts bombed a girls’ primary school in Minab in southern Iran, brutally slaughtered as many as 175 young schoolgirls. Mothers who lost their daughters in an instant clawed through the rubble with their bare hands in search of their children’s bodies, and those who held their daughters’ lifeless bodies in their arms cried out in anguish and fury against the atrocity. Dozens of burial pits in a cemetery 8 kilometers from the school stand as a stark indictment of the cruelty and brutality of these war criminals. Furthermore, Western media reports labeling the school as an ‘Iranian Revolutionary Guard-related building’ lay bare the insidious nature of imperialist propaganda. In Palestine, under the actions of Israeli Zionism, over 72,100 people have been officially martyred—with unofficial estimates exceeding 200,000—and approximately 70% of these victims are women and children.
Women in South Korea are suffering under the weight of double and triple exploitation. The coercive negotiations between the U.S. and South Korea, led by Trump, have stripped away the facade of an ‘alliance,’ revealing the true nature of the relationship: one of an imperialist power and its colony. Since the 1997 IMF crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, South Korea has been systematically plundered by predatory US economic policies. As a result, regular workers have been relegated to precarious, irregular employment, while irregular workers have been plunged into the depths of unemployment. Within this exploitative structure, as of December 2025, the proportion of women in precarious, irregular employment exceeds that of men by more than 17 percent. The average wage for female workers remains at approximately 71 percent of their male counterparts, marking the widest gender pay gap among OECD nations for 33 consecutive years. It is all too clear that if the structure of exploitation deepens through US–South Korea negotiations and leads to the hollowing out of South Korean industry, South Korean women will inevitably suffer from even more severe economic crises and the deprivation of their right to survival.
The greatest obstacle to women’s liberation is none other than imperialist forces. To politically oppress and economically plunder the peoples of the Third World, imperialism installs fascist proxy regimes in its colonies and instigates ‘color revolutions’ to overthrow anti-imperialist governments. Driven by the sinister intent to escape its own terminal political and economic crises, it wages large-scale wars of aggression and carries out massacres. Currently, these imperialist warmongers are driving the women and peoples of the world into a state of chaos and suffering, running rampant in their desperate push toward a Third World War. In the face of this imminent threat of war, the foremost task for women is the overthrow of imperialism. Women will bring an end to imperialism—the butcher and the plunderer—to usher in a new world of independence, democracy, and peace, and to finally achieve the genuine social liberation of women.
March 8, 2026
In front of the US Embassy in Seoul, South Korea
World Anti-Imperialist Women’s Platform
Women’s Committee of the People’s Democracy Party
