Chapter 5 The situation and tasks after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War[1]

(September 1, 1937) A. Situation (1) Japan's large-scale offensive begins is massive is continued A powerful imperialist with foreign aid but another risky attack (2) The nationwide war of resistance in China begins national not local entered the stage of the war of resistance But it is still purely the government's resistance to the war and the suppression of people's enthusiasm. contains serious danger Among the leftists, middlemen, and rightists in the anti-Japanese front, class relations are important New changes, taking into account the new situation of class combination

The National War of Resistance has not yet come, but Japan cannot be defeated without this The Anti-Japanese National United Front has begun to be successfully organized across the country, but Still not full, not solid (3) Conclusion is a protracted war To mobilize all forces to strive for victory in the War of Resistance, to enrich the Fight for the solid anti-Japanese national united front B. Task (1) Mobilizing all forces to strive for victory in the War of Resistance, the Ten Programs, comprehensive war of the whole nation (2) The tasks of the united core of the Red Army Independent mountain guerrilla warfare

From the status of "Strong Qi Army" to the status of strength leadership The Problem of the Anti-Japanese Base Areas and the Volunteer Army (3) Tasks in areas of friendly parties and friendly forces From the current position of the party to the leading position of strength (4) Tasks in the Border Region The birthplace of politics, military affairs and cadres (5) Establishing a Workers' and Peasants' Bourgeois Democratic Republic during the war and preparing for transition to socialism two features two futures (6) Whether the Bourgeoisie Follows the Proletariat or the Proletariat

The bourgeoisie (the Kuomintang attracts the Communist Party, or does the Communist Party attract the Democratic Party) Conscious and unconscious against acute illness Oppose right opportunism, capitulationism - soon to become the The main danger of the party (mixing of different classes, parties and policies) There are two kinds of national defeatism: one is "left" -- Trotskyism; one right - national pessimism (exists in the right wing of the anti-Japanese front) (7) Unite cadres around the Party line Printed from transcripts kept at the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------

note [1] This is the outline of Mao Zedong's report at the meeting of activists at the central level on September 1, 1937.