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movement under the following conditions: (1) Immediate stop of offensive
against the Soviet districts; (2) guarantee of civil rights for
the masses; (3) arming of the masses and creation of anti-Japanese
volunteers. The Tankoo Agreement concluded between the Kuomintang
and Japan on May 30, 1933, and Sino-Japanese direct negotiations
since then are policies and actions against the national interests
but repeatedly repudiated by the Provisional Central Government
in its statements made public of late. The Soviet has supported
the anti-Japanese struggle in any and every part of the country.
To speak alone of the anti-Japanese strike of the textile workers
in West Shanghai in 1932, the Soviet aided them with $16,000.
In the Soviet territories, imperialist privileges have been abol-
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ished and imperialist influence wiped out. Imperialist pastors and
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fathers were ousted by the masses; estates of the people seized by imperialist
missionaries were returned; missionary schools were turned
into Soviet schools. In short, the Soviet districts in China alone are
liberated from the imperialist yoke.
These facts point to one thing: the Soviet is the sole anti-imperialist
government. The Soviet Government wants to make known
to the country-wide masses: the greatest responsibility of the Soviet
and the whole masses is to win victory over imperialists by means
of direct war. The fulfilment of this work depends upon the development
of the mass anti-imperialist struggle. First of all, the lackey
of imperialism, the Kuomintang, should be smashed because it is
the greatest obstacle on the way before the anti-imperialist Soviet
and masses.
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Because the Chinese Soviet districts are the revolutionary base
for the Chinese anti-imperialist movement, because the Chinese Red
Army is the main pillar of the Chinese anti-imperialist forces, and
because the Soviet movement and the revolutionary war are proceeding
violently, the Kuomintang with the direct help of the imperialists
and with all force at its disposal, waged four offensives and is
now waging the fifth one against the Soviet and Red Armies in an
attempt to put down the Chinese revolution and to fulfil its task of
cleaning the ground for imperialism. But every offensive of impe-