Comrades! The Congress is now holding its closing session, and the Congress has achieved a great victory! On behalf of the Provisional Central Government, I wish to say a few words: Under the current situation and entrusted with the mission conferred by the Congress, the Provisional Central Government has three major tasks: to organize revolutionary war. The development of the revolution has threatened the counter-revolutionary rule of the Kuomintang warlords and imperialism. The counter-revolutionary ruling forces will wage a brutal struggle against our revolutionary ruling forces. Therefore, the first task of the revolutionary Provisional Central Government is to unite <organize> large-scale revolutionary war, to direct this war so that it achieves victory step by step, to use the method of war to overthrow the domestic enemies, to cause the areas under reactionary rule to shrink day by day, and to cause the territory of the Soviet areas to expand day by day. Comrades must understand that to overthrow the reactionary rule, war is the only method; there is no second method besides this. The present Soviet government is not an organ for peaceful construction, but an organ for directing <commanding> battle. We must oppose that weak and fearful mentality towards war, and must organize the broad masses for use in large-scale war, first destroying the enemy’s armed forces and overthrowing the enemy’s political power, before we have any room to breathe and speak. The second is to consolidate and expand the revolutionary base areas, expanding to achieve first victory in one or several provinces. We need consolidated base areas, and we also need base areas on a large scale, precisely in order to cope with war, in order to achieve victory in larger-scale and more brutal wars. We must, over large areas,

implement the many political programs and decrees of great revolutionary significance decided upon by the Congress, promulgate our constitution, and enable the broad masses of workers and peasants to know how to use their own organs of state power to oppose the organs of state power of the enemy class and to rule over the enemy class. We must use the labor law to win over the broad masses of the people, use the land law to win over the broad masses of the peasants, and use these decrees and their actual effectiveness in implementation within the Soviet Republic to influence the toiling masses of workers and peasants in the white areas, to disintegrate the soldiers of the White Army, and to shake the enemy’s rule. The Provisional Central Government should, through such efforts, establish consolidated and expanded base areas; it should expand our base areas in step with the development of war, and as the base areas are consolidated and further expanded, carry out even larger-scale war, so that such war can achieve complete victory.

The third is to create a large and powerful Red Army. The Provisional Central Government’s [military] task of organizing the Red Army forces for revolutionary war is the foremost task. The present Red Army is not yet large; we must create a large Red Army in order to resist the armed forces of the white ruling class, to be used to defeat <the enemy’s> troops. We must also make this Red Army strong and powerful, so that within the large numbers of the Red Army there are main forces capable of defeating the enemy’s powerful units and seizing key cities.

The three tasks of the Provisional Central Government (organizing war, creating base areas, creating the Red Army) cannot be realized through the efforts of a few people; they can only be realized through the efforts of the Soviets at all levels and through the efforts of the broad masses. Moreover, it must be understood that war is the center of our life. Without war, the base areas cannot be expanded; without war, the base areas cannot be consolidated; without war, the Red Army cannot be expanded; without war, the Red Army cannot be forged into an iron army. The toiling masses of workers and peasants must fully understand: arm yourselves with war, use war to overthrow the enemy; war is the only effective method to achieve our liberation.

Long live the victory of the revolutionary war!

Long live the Chinese Soviet Republic!