—Telegram from the Central Government to the International Anti-Imperialist Anti-War Congress—. 1933•8•30

To the delegates of the International Anti-Imperialist Anti-War Congress, and to be forwarded to the proletariat, toiling masses, and all revolutionaries of the entire world!

The deepening of the world capitalist crisis and the end of the temporary post-war stability of capitalism have made the imperialist bourgeoisie even more frenziedly attack the proletariat and toiling masses of their own countries, placing the entire burden of the economic crisis upon them, and employing the most cruel and bloody fascist methods to deal with the organizations of the working class and all revolutionary actions. In Germany, in Italy, in Japan, and in all the capitalist countries of the world, the frenzied tide of fascism is engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the revolutionary movement of the working class and toiling masses of the entire world. In foreign affairs, the imperialisms are preparing to seek a way out of the economic crisis through cruel imperialist war. Their attacks on the Soviet Union and their aggression against the colonies have been further intensified. Japanese imperialism was the first to launch a bandit war in China, occupying the vast regions of China's Three Northeastern Provinces, Rehe, Chahar, and eastern Hebei, placing the more than fifty million toiling masses there under the iron heel of Japanese imperialism. In western China, British imperialism is currently using Tibetan troops to attack and seize our provinces of Xikang and Sichuan, preparing to turn western China completely into a British colony. Other imperialisms, such as the French and American, are likewise competing to carve up China's territory, desperately engaging in imperialist war to re-divide their markets in China. The evil imperialist bourgeoisie is the common enemy of the proletariat and toiling masses of the entire world. They have united with the evil white-terror Guomindang government in China, using hundreds of millions of gold yuan, guns, airplanes, and poison gas bombs to arm the Guomindang's army of over a million men to attack the base of the Chinese revolution, the Soviet areas of China, attempting to annihilate the Chinese revolutionary movement with a bloody slaughter. In this way, they seek to turn China completely into a colony of imperialism, so as to maintain their rule and continue their exploitation and enslavement of the proletariat of their own countries. This large-scale offensive by the Guomindang government against the Chinese Soviet areas, with the assistance of imperialism, is now already the fifth. The Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic declares to the proletariat and toiling masses of the entire world: The Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic is the representative of all the oppressed masses of China. The Chinese Soviet Republic has in the past been consolidated and developed in the midst of anti-imperialist war, and it will now deliver a fatal blow to the fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Soviet areas carried out by imperialism through the Guomindang. It repudiates all secret treaties concluded between the imperialist powers and the Chinese Guomindang government, and it is now calling upon, mobilizing, and arming the masses of all China to oppose the imperialist carving up of China with a war of national revolution, to fundamentally overthrow the rule of imperialism in China, to establish the Soviet political power of all China, and to preserve China's independence, unity, and territorial integrity. It is a powerful companion in the anti-imperialist struggle of the proletariat and toiling masses of the entire world!

Proletariat, toiling masses, and all revolutionaries of the entire world! The Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic, on behalf of all the oppressed masses of China, calls upon you to join with us to strike down the common enemy of the working and toiling masses and all revolutionaries of the world—the world imperialist bourgeoisie! We further ask you to use all methods to prevent the imperialists of all countries from shipping guns, airplanes, and poison gas bombs to China to slaughter the Chinese masses, and to go and call upon your soldier brothers in your own countries to oppose the imperialist aggression against the colonies and to refuse to slaughter the toiling masses of China for the interests of the imperialist bourgeoisie.

War against imperialism! Oppose the imperialist carving up of China!

Chairman of the Central Government Mao Zedong
Vice-Chairmen Xiang Ying, Zhang Guotao
August Thirtieth