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REPORT TO THE SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS
agrarian revolution of the peasants; to mobilize the broad masses to
fight for the acquisition and protection of land; to call all working
and peasant masses of the Soviet Districts and throughout China to
fight with all efforts and at all cost in the revolutionary war. This is
the way to smash the fifth offensive of imperialists and the Kuomintang,
to save China from being colonized and to attain the soviet
victory in one or several provinces and in the whole territory of China!
FROM MARX
TO MAO
2. THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST MOVEMENT
The greatest events in the past two years in China since the in-
auguration of the Provisional soviet Central Government were im-
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perialist attacks and the fourth and fifth offensives waged upon revolution
by counter-revolution. The occupation of Manchuria, Mongolia
and North China by Japanese robbers and the intensified control
of Tibet, Sikong, Yunnan, the Yangtze Valley by British, French
and American imperialists, are all directed by the imperialists to
wreck the Chinese Soviet power and to completely enslave the Chinese
nation as a preliminary step towards the war against the USSR.
The Kuomintang of landlords and bourgeoisie still sticks to its long
followed policy of capitulation while, on the contrary, the anti-imperialist
movement of NOT the country-wide FOR revolutionary masses, with
the unprecedented national crisis before them, has developed with
extreme violence.
At the present COMMERCIAL
movement two powers of opposite directions are
laid before the country-wide revolutionary masses: the Kuomintang
which surrenders completely to imperialism with all means suppresses
the anti-imperialistic masses; the Soviet which is determinably
anti-imperialistic DISTRIBUTION
and does its best to support and lead the antiimperialist
movement.
In the past two years the Provisional Soviet Central Government
has repeatedly circulated statements denouncing the predatory wars
waged by the Japanese imperialists and the traitorous capitulation
of Kuomintang. On April 14, 1932, the Provisional Central Government
formally declared war on Japan and issued mobilization orders
for war against her. The Provisional Central Government and
the Revolutionary Military Council have more than once announced
their readiness to conclude agreement with any armed unit of the
Kuomintang for joint anti-Japanese and anti-imperialist military
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