Revolutionary masses of the whole country! The Kuomintang government on May 31st concluded the North China Armistice Agreement with Japanese imperialism. This agreement completely sells out the vast territory of North China and its tens of millions of people to imperialism, but this is only the part of the traitorous secret treaty that the Kuomintang has made public. Although arch-traitors like Wang Jingwei shamelessly say the agreement is limited to military affairs and does not touch upon politics, what is in fact more serious is the large-scale traitorous secret treaty that the Kuomintang government has not announced. According to the main points of this secret treaty obtained by this government, they are as follows: (1) Chinese troops are to withdraw to the south of Ping-Jin, designating the area south of the Great Wall as a buffer zone. (2) The Chinese side recognizes “Manchukuo” and “Mongolkuo.” (3) All activities of the volunteer armies are to be stopped, and the arms of the volunteer armies and all anti-Japanese forces are to be dealt with when the time is opportune. (4) The Chinese side guarantees to stop all anti-Japanese movements. The Soviet Provisional Central Government, representing the entire Chinese populace, absolutely does not recognize this secret treaty and the North China Armistice Agreement, because such a secret treaty and agreement have completely sold out the vast lands of Manchuria, Mongolia, North China, and the national interests of the entire country to Japanese imperialism. And, without a doubt, the Kuomintang government will again accede to the demands of British and American imperialism, and sell out the lands and rights of Tibet, Xikang, and even the Yangtze and Pearl River basins, to practice its traitorous line of “equal opportunity” and “sharing of interests.” The Chinese Soviet Provisional Central Government also calls upon the entire Chinese populace to rise up as one to oppose the Kuomintang’s traitorous secret treaty and traitorous agreement, with resolute revolutionary struggle: strikes, class boycotts, market boycotts, mass demonstrations, and organizing the people’s own armed forces to oppose and prevent the implementation of any article of this secret treaty and agreement. The people of the whole country must understand that if they do not oppose this secret treaty and agreement, the four hundred million people will all become cattle and slave-chattels to be trampled upon forever by imperialism. The people of the whole country must understand that only by arming themselves, striking down the traitorous Kuomintang government, and directly fighting imperialism to expel Japan and all imperialists from China, can they liberate themselves and avoid the fate of cattle and slave-chattels. The Soviet Provisional Central Government declares: it is prepared to exhaust all its strength, spiritual, material, and armed, to help the people of the whole country oppose Japanese imperialism and the traitorous Kuomintang government, and repeats its announcement to all armed forces of the Kuomintang government throughout the country: under the three conditions of (1) immediately ceasing the offensive against the Soviet areas, (2) guaranteeing the people’s freedoms of assembly, association, speech, publication, etc., and (3) immediately arming the people to create armed volunteer armies, the Soviet Central Government is willing to conclude a combat agreement for military operations with any armed force of the Kuomintang to fight against Japanese imperialism. At the same time, the Soviet Central Government must also point out that all the traitorous Kuomintang warlords such as Feng Yuxiang, Cai Tingkai, Chen Jitang, etc., who are now loudly calling to resist Japan and oppose the armistice agreement, are engaged in a complete charade to deceive the people. In reality, a portion of them have already united with Chiang Kai-shek to actively and desperately attack the Red Army and the Soviets, while another portion are complete running dogs of Japanese imperialism. Their loud calls to resist Japan and oppose the armistice agreement are merely a method to deceive the people so that they can carry out their treason. They have no other intention besides colluding with imperialism to suppress the revolutionary masses and revolutionary soldiers and striving to attack the Soviet areas and the Red Army. Revolutionary masses and revolutionary soldiers of the whole country, only the people’s own armed forces and the union of anti-Japanese soldiers and the people can carry out a true national revolutionary war to strike down Japan and all imperialism, and striking down the traitorous Kuomintang is the prerequisite for the victory of this war. The Chinese Soviet Central Government calls upon the people and revolutionary soldiers of the whole country to unite under the banner of the Soviets, to join with the Red Army, to jointly overthrow the rule of the Kuomintang, the arch-culprits who have sold out China, to safeguard China’s independence and territorial integrity, and to strive for the complete liberation of the Chinese nation!

Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Provisional Central Government Mao Zedong
Vice-Chairmen Xiang Ying, Zhang Guotao
June 10, 1933