Manifesto of the Central Government
of the Chinese Soviet Republic and
of the Revolutionary Military Commission
of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
on Resisting Japan and Saving China
(November 28, 1935)
To the workers, peasants, soldiers, students, members of the professions, businessmen, and merchants of all China, the People's Revolutionary Army of the
Northeast, the Volunteers' Army of the Northeast, officers of all the armed
forces, and all noble-minded and warm-hearted patriots:


After the Four Northeastern Provinces, North China has now also fallen, [making] half of China. The Japanese imperialist robbers want to turn the people of
China into slaves without a country, and all of China into a colony. The head
traitor, Chiang Kaishek, after selling out the Four Northeastern Provinces, is now
engaged in selling out all of North China, and even the whole of China, in order
to preserve his own cruel fascist rule over the people of all China.


Faced with the threat of the loss of our state and the extinction of our race, the
Chinese people must absolutely not tie their own hands and wait to be slaughtered. The Chinese nation can gain its final and complete liberation only through
a general mobilization of all China's navy, army, and air force and the people of
all China, and the launching of a sacred national-revolutionary war against
Japan, to overthrow Japanese imperialism and destroy the biggest traitor selling
out the country since Chinese history began, Chiang Kaishek.


and our knowledge, if we have knowledge, to unite and struggle all together, and
to confront the common enemy of the Chinese people, with the determination to
fight to the death. Therefore, the Central Government of the Chinese Soviet
Republic and the Revolutionary Military Commission of the Chinese Workers'
and Peasants' Red Army issue this special manifesto to the people of the whole
country, proclaiming our willingness not only to sign operational agreements to
resist Japan and oppose Chiang Kaishek with any political group, armed force,
social group, or person whatsoever, so long as they are willing to resist Japan
and oppose Chiang Kaishek, but to go a step further and form a united Anti-Japanese army and a government of national defense. We consider that this united
anti-Japanese army and government of national defense should have the following ten guiding principles:


1. Confiscate all the assets in China that belong to Japanese imperialism, to
provide funds for opposing Japan.
2. Confiscate all the assets of the traitors who are selling out China, and
distribute them to victims of disaster and refugees.
3. Provide disaster relief, prevent floods, and give stability to people's
livelihood.
4. Abolish all burdensome levies and miscellaneous taxes; develop industry
and commerce.
5. Raise pay to improve the lives of workers, soldiers and teachers.
6. Develop education and provide relief to students whose schools have
closed down.
7. Put into effect democratic rights, and release all political prisoners.
8. Develop productive technologies, and provide relief to unemployed
intellectuals.
9. Unite with the workers and peasants, and with all the anti-Japanese forces
in Korea, in Taiwan, and within Japan to form a solid alliance.
10. Establish close and friendly relations with nations or states that show
sympathy and approval for, or maintain a friendly neutrality toward, China's
anti-Japanese national movement.




The Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic and the Revolutionary Military Commission of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army call
on the people of the whole country to support this position of ours, and to send
representatives immediately to meet with each other and discuss concrete methods

--- Notes

The Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic and the Revolution Our source for this document is Mao Zedong wenji, Vol. 1, pp. 360-62. According to
recent Chinese publications on Party history, this manifesto was issued shortly after
Lin Yuying (Zhang Hao) came to Wayaobao from Moscow, where he had attended the
Seventh Comintern Congress, and transmitted the Comintern's order to set up an
antifascist united front. (See above, the Introduction.) The version in Mao Zedong ji,
therefore been shorn of all the anti-Chiang Kaishek rhetoric employed in 1935, so as
to bring it into harmony with the language employed as a new united front with the
Guomindang took shape.
ary Military Commission of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army have
repeatedly called on the people of the whole country to unite and fight Japan.
They have sent the main force of their own Red Army on a 25,000-li Long
March, through unspeakable difficulties and hardships, to go northward and
resist Japan. Now the situation has grown even more urgent. Now is truly the
time that requires us, the people of the whole country, to contribute our strength
if we have strength, our money, if we have money, our guns, if we have guns,

Vol. 5, pp. 9-11, has been copied from a text distributed in January 1937, and has