毛泽东选集/蒋介石政府已处在全民的包围中

#§The Chiang Kai-shek government, hostile to the whole people, now finds itself besieged by the whole people.

# §On both the military and political fronts, it has met defeats, is now besieged by the forces it has declared to be its enemies and can kind no way of escape.

#§The traitorous Chiang Kai-shek clique and its master, U.S. imperialism, have wrongly appraised the situation.

#§ They overestimated their own strength and underestimated the strength of the people.

#§ They regarded China and the world after World War II as being the same as in the past; they would permit nothing to change nor anyone to go against their will.

# §After Japan's surrender they were determined to restore the old order in China.

#§ And having gained time by such deceptions as political consultation and military mediation, the traitorous Chiang Kai-shek government mustered two million troops and launched an all-out offensive.

#§There are now two battle fronts in China.

# §The war between Chiang Kai-shek's invading troops and the People's Liberation Army constitutes the first front.

#§ Now a second front has emerged, that is, the sharp struggle between the great and righteous student movement and the reactionary Chiang Kai-shek government.

#§ The slogan of the student movement is "Food, Peace, Freedom" or "Against Hunger, Against Civil War, Against Persecution".

#§ Chiang Kai-shek has promulgated the "Provisional Measures for the Maintenance of Public Order".

#§ Everywhere his army, police, gendarmes and secret agents are clashing with the student masses.

# §Chiang Kai-shek is using brute force against unarmed students, subjecting them to arrest, imprisonment, beating and slaughter; as a result the student movement is daily growing in strength.

#§ Public sympathy is all on the side of the students, Chiang Kai-shek and his running dogs are completely isolated, and his ferocious features have been completely unmasked.

# §The student movement is part of the whole people's movement.

#§ The upsurge of the student movement will inevitably promote an upsurge of the whole people's movement.

#§ This is borne out by the historical experience of the May 4th Movement of 1919 and the December 9th Movement of 1935.

#§Since U.S. imperialism and its running dog Chiang Kai-shek have taken the place of Japanese imperialism and its running dog Wang Ching-wei and adopted the policies of turning China into a U.S. colony, launching a civil war and strengthening the fascist dictatorship, they have declared themselves to be enemies of the entire Chinese people and driven all strata of the people to the brink of starvation and death. #§ This has compelled all strata of the people to unite in a life-and-death struggle against the reactionary Chiang Kai-shek government and brought about the speedy development of that struggle.

# §For the people there is no other way out.

# §The strata of the Chinese people oppressed by the reactionary policies of the Chiang Kai-shek government and united for their own salvation include the workers, peasants, urban petty bourgeoisie, national bourgeoisie, enlightened gentry, other patriotic elements, the minority nationalities and overseas Chinese.

#§The extremely reactionary financial and economic policies long pursued by the Chiang Kai-shek government have now been aggravated by the Sino-U.S.

# §Treaty of Commerce, the most treasonable treaty ever known. #§ On the basis of this treaty, U.S. monopoly capital and Chiang Kai-shek's bureaucrat-comprador capital have become tightly intertwined and control the economic life of the whole country.

#§ The results are unbridled inflation, unparalleled soaring prices, ever-spreading bankruptcy of the industry and commerce of the national bourgeoisie and daily deterioration in the livelihood of the working masses, government employees and teachers.