raised systematically for solution. The new environment and tasks urgently demand
that there be a complete transformation with regard to this problem, and we are now
in the process of bringing about just such a transformation.
Letter to the Secretary General
of the Communist Party
of the United States, Browder
(June 24, 1937)
My dear Comrade Browder:
Taking advantage of a comrade's visit, I am sending this letter to you, our
respected Comrade Browder, good friend of the Chinese people and leader of the
American people.
Both the Communist Party of China and the Communist Party of the U.S.A.
are confronted with a historic task, the task of resisting and overthrowing the
aggressive policy of Japanese imperialism. The Chinese Party is endeavoring to
bring about an anti-Japanese national united front. Although our work is passing
through a difficult period, we have already made progress and we are doing our
best to bring about the desired result.
From several American friends, and from other sources, we learned that the
Communist Party of the United States and the masses of the American people are
deeply concerned with China's struggle against Japan and have given us assistance in many ways. This makes us feel that our struggle is by no means isolated,
and we are heroically assisted from abroad. At the same time we feel that when
we achieve victory, this victory will be of considerable help to the struggle of the
American people for liberation. The world is now on the eve of a great explosion. The working class of the world and all the people who desire liberation
must unite for the common struggle.
Revolutionary greetings,
Mao Tse-tung

A note to the Chinese version of this document published in December 1937, and reproduced in Mao Zedong ji, Vol. 5, pp. 231-32, states that the original was in English. Mao's
own Chinese draft (assuming he wrote the letter himself) does not appear to exist. We
have therefore followed the English text as it was published in the New York Daily
Worker on September 7, 1937, rather than retranslating from the Chinese. Earl Browder
read out Mao's letter, together with similar missives from Zhu De and Zhou Enlai, at a
meeting held on September 2, 1937, at the Coney Island Velodrome.