Fellow citizens of all China! The so-called People’s Revolutionary Government of Fujian, owing to Chiang Kai-shek’s armed intervention and the capitulation and betrayal of its leaders, has now come to a final defeat. Since last year, after suffering severe blows at Liancheng and in northern Fujian at the hands of our Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army’s Eastern Column, the leaders of the Fujian People’s Revolutionary Government came to realize that a temporary concession to the Soviet regime and the Red Army had become a necessary condition for preserving their own strength and rule. At the same time, the bankruptcy of the traitorous, people-destroying Kuomintang regime; the mounting anger and resistance of millions upon millions of workers and peasants nationwide against the imperialist Kuomintang; and their growing sympathy for and support of the anti-imperialist, anti-Kuomintang Soviet Red Army—all these factors compelled the bureaucrats, politicians, and warlords who constituted the Fujian Provincial Government and the Nineteenth Route Army to seek new methods of rule beyond the old Kuomintang style, if they were to maintain the domination of the landlord-bourgeois class as a whole.  Accordingly, the Fujian Provincial Government and the officers and functionaries of the Nineteenth Route Army first dispatched an envoy, Xu Minghong, to the Central Soviet Government, expressing their willingness to accept the three decrees proclaimed by the Central Soviet Government and the Revolutionary Military Commission: (1) an immediate cessation of hostilities against the Soviet areas; (2) the immediate guarantee of the people’s rights to freedom of speech, assembly, association, and strike; and (3) the prompt arming of the masses and the formation of an armed volunteer army to defend China and to strive for her independence, unity, and territorial integrity. The Soviet Government fully understood this maneuver on the part of the Fujian Kuomintang provincial authorities and the Nineteenth Route Army’s bureaucratic-political-military clique. Empty words could never deceive the Soviet leadership. On the other hand, in accordance with its own declarations, the Soviet Government was prepared to lend practical impetus and assistance to any movement opposed to imperialism and to Chiang Kai-shek. Therefore, under the condition that the representatives of the Fujian Provincial Government and the Nineteenth Route Army would agree to all our demands and conditions, the Soviet Government and the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, acting on the basis of their revolutionary principles, concluded a preliminary agreement with them. From the very outset, the Soviet leadership made it clear to the Fujian delegation and the Nineteenth Route Army’s representatives that only by resolutely launching and supporting the broad masses in their revolutionary struggle against Japanese imperialism, foreign powers, and Chiang Kai-shek—by arming them and granting them all democratic freedoms—could the Chinese nation be saved from ruin. Any reformist, deceptive propaganda could serve only as an auxiliary tool for the imperialist Kuomintang.  After concluding the preliminary agreement with the Soviet Government and the Red Army, the Fujian Provincial Government and the Nineteenth Route Army’s representatives declared their secession from the Kuomintang, established their so-called People’s Revolutionary Government, promulgated certain “left”-leaning reformist platforms, and publicly issued a manifesto opposing the Nanjing Kuomintang government under Chiang Kai-shek. Yet this was merely lip service. In reality, they continued to collude with and curry favor toward Japanese and American imperialism. They remained silent in the face of provocations by Japanese ruffians in Fuzhou, and, under the pretext of wartime conditions, failed to grant the people their democratic rights or to arm them. As for the workers, peasants, and all toilers, not only did they provide no concrete measures to improve their living standards, but they actively suppressed workers’ strike struggles and peasants’ resistance against landlords and their efforts to seize land. Militarily, too, they pursued a thoroughly defeatist line. Faced with Chiang Kai-shek’s vigorous offensive, they made no specific military dispositions beforehand and, once engaged, surrendered one after another—from Situ Fei and Tan Qixiu right through to Shen Guanghan, Mao Weishou, Qu Shouyan, and Zhang Yan. The Nineteenth Route Army’s warlord cliques led by Jiang Guangding and Cai Tingkai simply withdrew without a fight, surrendering to the Guangdong warlords in order to save themselves. Many other bureaucrats and politicians, such as Chen Mingshu, Chen Youren, and Huang Qixiang, spent their days indulging in empty rhetoric and deceiving the populace. But at the first sound of gunfire, they fled like frightened dogs to the embassies and warships of the imperialist powers. Although our Red Army had been actively operating in northern Fujian in coordination with their anti-Chiang campaign, advancing from Sha County down to Youxi, such assistance proved futile for that rabble of cowardly lackeys.  Based on the preliminary agreement, the Soviet Government and the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army again warned the People’s Revolutionary Government that only by implementing every clause of the agreement and mobilizing the broad masses in revolutionary struggle could they repel Chiang Kai-shek’s armed attack and truly oppose Japanese imperialism. However, these warnings went unheeded by the bureaucratic-political-military clique within the People’s Revolutionary Government. Rife with hostility toward the people, they differed in no respect from other Kuomintang bureaucrats, politicians, and warlords. As we have pointed out, it was precisely this attitude that sealed the tragic fate of the People’s Revolutionary Government, which, confronted by Chiang Kai-shek’s armed forces, met its end after little more than fifty days.  Fellow citizens of all China! From the preliminary agreement between the Soviet Government and the People’s Revolutionary Government, together with the Soviet Government’s communiqués, you can clearly see how, in order to oppose Japanese imperialism and its henchman Chiang Kai-shek, and to achieve the complete liberation of the Chinese nation, the Soviet Government and the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army have steadfastly demonstrated in practice that they alone are the vanguard of the anti-imperialist struggle, capable of freeing China from the iron heel of the imperialist Kuomintang. All reformist factions—from the Mass Production Party and the Social Democratic Party to the Third Party and the Trotskyist–Chen Duxiu splinter groups—are nothing more than echo chambers for the imperialist Kuomintang and accomplices in its campaign against the revolutionary masses.  To all the people of China, to the revolutionary soldiers, and to all armed forces: The Soviet Government does not, because of the failure of the Fujian People’s Revolutionary Government and the breach of contract by its bureaucratic-political-military clique, renounce its proposal to conclude a combat agreement on the basis of the three conditions previously laid out. On the contrary, the events in Fujian have made it even clearer to every worker, every peasant, every soldier, every intellectual, and every anti-Japanese Chinese: It is not in words but in concrete action that the Soviet Government stands ready to unite with all genuine anti-Japanese, anti-Chiang forces to secure the independence, freedom, and liberation of the Chinese nation. Any force genuinely committed to resisting Japan and Chiang Kai-shek, as well as any anti-imperialist and anti-Kuomintang organization, may receive strong guidance and assistance from the Soviet Government and the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. However, the Soviet Government and the Red Army will continue to deliver merciless blows and expose the counterrevolutionary reformist elements that seek to perpetuate imperialist domination and the rule of China’s landlord-bourgeois class through empty promises and deceptive propaganda.  Fellow citizens of all China! The disastrous collapse of the Fujian People’s Revolutionary Government once again underscores the fact that only your own courageous, resolute struggle can ultimately overthrow the imperialist Kuomintang regime and ensure China’s independence, freedom, and territorial integrity. The victorious, successful experience of tens of millions of toilers across China’s vast Soviet regions shows you: Only the Soviet path can bring about the national and social liberation of the entire people! Your defense of the Soviet areas against the Kuomintang’s aggression is, in essence, a defense of the Chinese revolution itself and a guarantee of your own victory!  All anti-imperialist, anti-Japanese forces throughout China, unite! Smash the Kuomintang’s five “encirclement and suppression” campaigns—the Nanjing government and all other Kuomintang regimes! Long live an anti-imperialist Soviet China! November 11, 1934