ANTI-JAPANESE DECLARATION FOR NATIONAL SALVATION

28 November 1935

[Text] Declaration to Resist Japan and Save the Nation issued by the
Central Government of the Soviet People's Republic of China and the
Revolutionary Military Commission of the Resist-Japan Red Army of China

Workers, peasants, soldiers, students, free lances, merchants, industrialists, the Northeast Revolutionary Army, the Northeast Volunteer
Army, officers and soldiers of all armed units, and fervent determined
patriots!

After the four northeast provinces, comes the loss of North China, half
of the nation.  Wishing to turn all the Chinese people into stateless
slaves and all of China into a colony, the Japanese imperialist bandits,
after annexing the four northeast provinces, are now swallowing all of
North China, and even all of China.

Confronted with the destruction of the nation and extinction of the race,
the Chinese people absolutely will not await death with their hands tied.
Only by a general mobilization of the army, navy, and air force and the
people of all of China for a sacred anti-Japanese national revolutionary
war, in order to knock down Japanese imperialism and exterminate the biggest traitor in China since the beginning of history, will the nation of
China gain a final and complete liberation.

The Central Government of the Soviet People's Republic of China and the
Revolutionary Military Commission of the Resist-Japan Red Army of China
have continuously appealed to the people of the entire nation to unite
and wage war against Japan.  They sent the main force of their own Red
Army on a long expedition of 25,000 li, undergoing all kinds of hardships to fight Japan in the North. The situation has become even more
urgent. Now is the time to ask the people of the entire nation to contribute their strength, money, guns, and knowledge, to unite, to struggle,
and to confront the common enemies of the Chinese people with an unwavering determination; therefore, the Central Government of the Soviet

People's Republic of China and the Revolutionary Military Commission of
the Resist-Japan Red Army of China do hereby declare to the people of the
entire nation that, regardless of the political factions, armed units,
social organizations, or individual classes, as long as they are willing
to resist Japan, we will not only be willing to form a resist-Japan combat agreement with them, but also organize with them a resist-Japan
coalition army and a national defense government. For the resist-Japan
coalition army and the national defense government, we find the following 10 major outlines necessary.

(1) Confiscate all the assets of Japanese imperialism in China for
resist-Japan expenses.

(2) Confiscate the land and assets of traitors and spies and divide them
among the workers, peasants, and disasters victims and refugees.

(3) Relieve disasters and control flood; settle the people's living.

(4) Abolish all harsh levies and vexatious taxes; develop industry and
commerce.

(5) Raise wages and rations; improve the living standards of workers,
soldiers, and teachers.

(6) Develop education; relieve students unable to attend school.

(7) Realize democratic rights; release all political prisoners.

(8) Develop production technology; relieve jobless intellectuals.

(9) Rally the workers and peasants of Korea, Taiwan, and Japan and all
anti-Japanese strength to form a firm alliance.

(10) Establish close, friendly relations with nations or states expressing
sympathy for China's resist-Japan national movement or maintaining a
friendly neutrality.

The Central Government of the Soviet People's Republic of China and the
Revolutionary Military Commission of the Resist-Japan Red Army of China
appeal to the people of the entire nation to support our proposal and
immediately send delegates to discuss the concrete measures. We believe
that, as long as we can realize this proposal with one mind and by concerted effort, the final victory is ours.

Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Central Government of the
Soviet People's Republic of China

28 November 1935
Chu Teh, Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Commission
of the Resist-Japan Red Army of China

"On the United Front--Our Proposal to Resist Japan and Save the Nation
in the Past Year" mimeographed (→ hand copied), January 1937