CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CABLE CONGRATULATING THE INAUGURATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI-IMPERIALIST AND ANTI-WAR CONGRESS

August 1933

[Text] Delegates to the International Anti-Imperialist and Anti-war Congress:

On behalf of the toiling worker-peasant masses of the entire China, the Provisional Central Government of the Soviet Republic of China extends its proletarian salute to all the delegates to the Congress! Courageous vanguard on the anti-imperialist front. You disregard the white terror of the imperialist Kuomintang and the threats of fascists and police and detectives, and resolutely call a world anti-imperialist and anti-war congress in Shanghai which is under the joint control of international imperialism and laid waste by the cannons of Japan. We wish to express our unlimited admiration and eager hopes! The inauguration of the congress is an unprecedented success won by the international worker class and all the toiling masses on the united front under the anti-imperialist international. We firmly believe that the congress will be able to lead the anti-imperialist warriors of the whole world to resist, by concrete measures, the endangered Far East war for the purpose of entirely colonizing China and the imminent and urgent international imperialist war against Soviet Russia.

The toiling masses of the entire China completely and profoundly understand the sharp opposition between the (Lytton) inquiry group and the international anti-imperialist and anti-war delegation. Our political experience tells us that the former is the planner and organizer of the bandit international imperialism to divide China, while the latter, which is --you--are the most effective helper of the people of the entire China in resisting the imperialist bandit aggression and striving for China's independence and freedom and liberation. We hope you will reveal the truth of all the imperialist inhuman conduct, crimes, and conspiracies in China to our worker-peasant brothers of the whole world. Meanwhile, we enthusiastically welcome you to come and inspect the soviet areas, contrast the revolutionary fervor of the workers and peasants in the soviet areas, the improvement in their living, and all the constructions of the soviet government against

the hunger, death, unemployment, and famine which you see in the imperialist Kuomintang controlled areas, spread it among the workers, peasants, and soldiers of the world, and arouse their excitement and sympathy!

Currently, China is in the midst of a violent war between the two paths--the colonial and the soviet paths. The fifth "encirclement and suppression" against the Soviet Red Army launched recklessly by the imperialist Kuomintang is to make China follow completely the colonial path, while we are concentrating all forces to smash the enemy's desperate attack, block the imperialist-colonial path, and struggle for the road of an independent and free soviet China. We believe that the congress is in complete sympathy with us. Therefore, the success of the congress is our success; the victory of the congress is our victory. Leading the workers and peasants of the entire China and the Red Army, we unanimously support the congress in its successful progress, and we wish to express our sincere congratulations for its great advance!

Mao Tse-tung, Chairman, Provisional Central Government of the Soviet Republic of China

Hsiang Ying, Vice Chairman

Chang Kuo-t'ao, Vice Chairman

"RED CHINA," No 107, 3 September 1933