Workers, peasants, soldiers, and all toiling masses of China! Inner Mongolia, and after betraying Beiping and Tianjin, the whole of North China is now being sold out to Japanese imperialism. Through the Lushan Conference and Nanchang Conference of the traitorous Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, and Huang Fu, and through the direct negotiations between Wang Jingwei, Huang Fu, and the representatives of Japanese imperialism in Shanghai and Nanjing, the Kuomintang has already agreed to designate all Chinese territory north of the Yellow River as the territory of "Manchukuo." Through rail and postal services between "Manchukuo" and North China have already begun. All troops in North China are being transferred south to "suppress the Communists" or reorganized into the "Manchukuo" army, a process now underway. The Political Readjustment Committee in Beiping has been further restructured into a direct puppet organization of Japanese imperialism. The Kuomintang has further permitted "Manchukuo" to set up additional customs posts in North China to levy taxes, while the goods of Japanese imperialism can pass through North China without any hindrance. Under "Sino-Japanese-Manchukuo economic cooperation," the Kuomintang recognizes Japan's priority investment rights in North China to "jointly develop the wealth of North China" and its transportation. At the same time, the Kuomintang side is responsible for suppressing all anti-Japanese and anti-imperialist revolutionary organizations and activities in North China, while Japanese imperialism undertakes to supply the Kuomintang with large amounts of loans and arms to attack the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army.

People of all China! North China has been sold out to Japanese imperialism by the utterly evil Kuomintang. But the betrayal of North China not only fails to halt Japanese imperialism's aggression against China; it further inflames its ambition and greed to swallow up the whole of China. The bloody hand of Japanese imperialism is already reaching toward Fujian and the Yangtze River region. On April 17 of this year, Japanese imperialism openly declared that China belongs to Japan, that Japan is the master of East Asia, and that Japan opposes any other country "plundering" China under any name! At the same time, the betrayal of North China and the attempt by Japanese imperialism to monopolize China naturally further spurs other imperialist countries to accelerate the direct partition of China. In vast regions such as Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Kham-Tibet, British imperialism is establishing its "State of Tibet." Places like Banhong and Canglan in Yunnan have already been occupied by it. French imperialism is carrying out aggression in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, while the actions of U.S. imperialism to vie for control over China are being pursued frenetically. The alliances (such as the Anglo-Japanese alliance) and conflicts (such as the Japan-U.S. conflict) among these imperialist countries are not aimed at helping China but precisely at carving up China more quickly and turning it into an imperialist colony. Toward all imperialist countries, the Kuomintang's policy is consistently one of surrender and betrayal. The Kuomintang not only wants to sell North China to Japanese imperialism but also to sell all of China to every imperialism! The conflict between the Nanjing Kuomintang government and the Guangdong Kuomintang government is by no means because they have differing views on betraying China, but precisely because of their uneven division of spoils and their rivalry and competition in selling out the country.

People of all China! With Japanese imperialism annexing the whole of North China, with all imperialist powers directly carving up China, and with the Kuomintang betraying and humiliating the nation, only by uniting and arming the masses of all China, by launching an armed popular national revolutionary war to drive Japanese, British, U.S., French, and all other imperialisms out of China, and by overthrowing the Kuomintang that has sold out North China and the entire country—only then can we escape the misery of becoming slaves to a lost nation, rescue China from the path of colonization, and establish an independent, free, and territorially integral new China! Time is extremely pressing, and we cannot afford a moment of suspicion or hesitation. Delay means death! Only the traitorous Kuomintang would shamelessly claim that "China's national strength is insufficient and it is unable to resist Japan." The Kuomintang has over one million troops, yet it says it is "unable to resist Japan." The Kuomintang possesses vast quantities of weapons, yet it says it is "unable to resist Japan." The Kuomintang has hundreds of millions in loans and annual revenues, yet it says it is "unable to resist Japan." And all of these the Kuomintang uses to attack the only anti-imperialist Soviet government and the workers' and peasants' Red Army in China, and to suppress the anti-Japanese and anti-imperialist revolutionary movements of the entire Chinese people. Every worker, every peasant, every revolutionary can see that this is not the Kuomintang being "unable to resist Japan," but that the Kuomintang is the running dog of Japanese imperialism and all imperialisms, the path-sweeper for imperialist partition of China.

The Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic calls upon the people of all China to unite, to arm themselves, to oppose all oppression, slaughter, and deception by the Kuomintang, and to go to war against Japan and all imperialisms! The Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic fully endorses the anti-imperialist program put forward by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. This program is as follows:

(1) Resolutely oppose the Kuomintang's entire policy of surrender and betrayal; oppose the Nanjing Kuomintang government's Tanggu Agreement and direct Sino-Japanese negotiations that have sold out the Northeast, North China, and all of China; cast aside any illusions regarding the League of Nations and the United States. Only the unity and solidarity of the workers, peasants, and all working people can constitute the resistance force of the Chinese nation against imperialism and the guarantee of victory.

(2) The people of all China must rise up to wage a sacred national revolutionary war to safeguard China's territory and independence.

(3) Call on the masses to directly participate in the anti-Japanese war and guerrilla warfare. Arm the masses with all weapons from arsenals and imports, organize popular anti-Japanese volunteer forces, actively assist and participate in the anti-Japanese volunteer forces in the Northeast, and engage in broad mass actions to boycott Japanese goods.

(4) Confiscate the assets of Japanese imperialists and traitorous collaborators, stop all payments of principal and interest on debts, and implement progressive taxation to fund the anti-Japanese struggle.

(5) China must immediately and completely sever diplomatic relations with Japan, mobilize the entire army, navy, and air force to fight Japan, and immediately cease all offensives against the Soviet areas and warlord wars.

The Chinese Soviet Republic calls upon all Chinese who genuinely wish to oppose imperialism and are unwilling to become slaves to a lost nation to unite under this anti-imperialist program of the Communist Party of China, regardless of political inclination, profession, or gender. Only by implementing this program can the Chinese nation achieve thorough liberation.

The Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic has repeatedly declared to all armed forces attacking the Soviet areas its willingness to conclude agreements for jointly waging war against imperialism under the following three conditions:

(1) Immediately stop attacks on the Soviet areas;

(2) Immediately guarantee the democratic rights of the people to assembly, association, speech, publication, and strike;

(3) Immediately arm the people and form armed volunteer forces to defend China and strive for China's independence, unity, and territorial integrity.

But the responses of the arch-traitors Chiang Kai-shek, Chen Jitang, He Jian, and others to these declarations have been to sell the whole of North China and the entire country to Japanese, British, U.S., French, and other imperialisms, to obtain more funds and arms from them, and to intensify their fifth encirclement campaign against our Soviet areas. This has compelled our Soviet government to concentrate all its strength first to destroy the main forces of the arch-traitor Chiang Kai-shek. Without eliminating the armed forces of the imperialist running dogs like Chiang Kai-shek, it is impossible for our workers' and peasants' Red Army and the millions of toiling masses throughout the Soviet areas to directly engage in battle against Japan and other imperialisms.

The Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic declares to the people of all China that, under the three conditions listed above, it stands ready at all times to mobilize our hundreds of thousands of workers' and peasants' Red Army troops and millions of toiling masses to first wage war against Japanese imperialism. We believe that all Chinese who are willing to oppose imperialism and unwilling to become slaves to a lost nation will voluntarily join this sacred national revolutionary war. We believe that a national revolutionary war drawing in hundreds upon thousands upon millions of the masses of all China can not only defeat Japanese imperialism but also defeat every imperialism! We have already completely driven imperialism out of the Soviet areas, and we will sweep them clean from all of China.

Launch the national revolutionary war and drive Japan and all imperialisms out of China!

Arm the masses spontaneously, recover the Chinese territories of the Northeast and North China!

Repudiate the Kuomintang's treacherous surrender of the Chinese territories of the Northeast and North China, and annul all traitorous and humiliating secret Sino-Japanese agreements!

Overthrow the Nanjing Kuomintang government and all Kuomintang governments that have sold out the Northeast, North China, and the whole of China!

Smash the imperialist fifth "encirclement" against the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army, and defend the anti-imperialist Chinese Soviet regime!

Support the program of the Communist Party of China against Japanese imperialism!

Long live the united front of the people of all China against Japan and imperialism!

Long live the independent and free Soviet new China!

Tao

June 19, 1934