五四運動
The May 4th Movement
第壹次世界大戰後，帝國主義對中國加緊侵略，北洋軍閥政府對外妥協投降，對內殘酷壓迫人民，給中國帶來了深重的民族危機。
After World War I, the imperialists stepped up their aggression against China while the Northern Warlord government resorted to compromise and capitulation externally and to ruthless oppression of the people internally, thus landing China in a grave national crisis.
壹九壹九年“巴黎和會”上中國外交的失敗，激起了中國人民的極大憤慨。
China’s diplomatic setback at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 aroused strong indignation among the Chinese people.
五月四日，北京三千多學生在天安門前集會，他們高呼“外爭國權，內懲國賊”、“廢除二十壹條”等口號，舉行示威遊行。
On May 4, over three thousand Beijing students gathered in front of the Tian An Men, and then held a demonstration, shouting such slogans as “Defend our sovereignty, punish the traitors!”, “Abolish the Twenty-one Demands!”
他們要求懲辦賣國賊曹汝霖、陸宗輿、章宗祥，並火燒了曹宅，痛打了章宗祥。
They called for punishment to be meted out to the traitors Cao RUlin, Lu Zongyu and Zhang Zongxiang. They set fire to Cao’s residence and beat up Zhang.
北洋軍閥政府出動軍警鎮壓，捕去學生三十多名。
They called out troops and policemen to suppress the demonstrators and thirty students were arrested.
那時候，各地學生紛紛響應北京學生的反帝愛國鬥爭。
Immediately, the students in one part of the country after another rose in support of the anti-imperialist patriotic struggle launched by the students in Beijing.
具有初步***產主義思想的知識分子李大釗、毛澤東、周恩來等同誌分別在北京、長沙、天津，指導了這個偉大的反帝運動。
Comarades Li Dazhao, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other intellectuals who already had some knowledge of communism guided this great movement in Beijing, Changsha, Tianjin respectively.
六月三日，北京學生組織演講隊，開展大規模的宣傳活動，軍閥政府對學生的鎮壓變本加厲，捕去壹百七十多人。
On June 3, the students of Beijing formed groups of speakers and carried out extensive publicity work. The government intensified its suppression and arrested over 170 students.
“六三”以後，主要是青年學生參加的五四愛國運動，發展成為無產階級、小資產階級和民族資產階級***同參加的全國範圍的革命運動。無產階級成為運動的主力。
From this point on, the May 4th patriotic movement, hitherto conducted mainly by the student youth, became a nation-wide revolutionary movement in which the proletariat, the petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie all took part, with the proletariat as the mainstay.
上海、唐山、長辛店等地工人紛紛罷工示威，中國工人階級第壹次作為覺悟了的獨立的政治力量登上政治舞臺，顯示了它的偉大力量。
Large numbers of workers in Shanghai, Tangshan, Changxindian and elsewhere went on strike and held demonstrations. For the first time in Chinese history, the working class appeared as an awakened, independent force in the political arena, demonstrating its tremendous strength.
在全國人民反帝愛國鬥爭的壓力下，北洋軍閥政府被迫釋放被捕學生，撤銷三個賣國賊的職務，拒絕在對德“和約”上簽字，反帝反封建鬥爭取得了初步勝利。
Under the pressure of the nation-wide anti-imperialist patriotic struggle, the Warlord government had to set free the students it had arrested, dismiss the three traitors from office, and withhold its signature from the “Peace Treaty” with Germany. This marked an initial victory for the struggle against imperialism and feudalism.
五四運動是壹次徹底的不妥協的反帝反封建的革命運動，它促成了中國工人運動同馬克思主義的結合，在思想上和幹部上為中國***產黨的成立作了準備，是中國新民主主義革命的開端。
The May 4th Movement was a thoroughgoing, uncompromising revolutionary movement against imperialism and feudalism. It was instrumental in bringing about the integration of Marxism with China’s labor movement, and it paved the way, both in ideology and in the matters of cadres, for the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. It ushered in China’s new-democratic revolution.