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SPEECH AT
THE ASSEMBLY OF REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE SHENSI-KANSU-NINGSIA
BORDER REGION

November 21, 1941

Members of the Assembly! Comrades! Today’s inauguration of
the Border Region Assembly of Representatives is of great signif-
icance. The Assembly has but one objective, the overthrow of Japa-
nese imperialism and the building of a China of New Democracy
or, in other words, a China of the revolutionary Three People’s
Principles. In the China of today there can be no other objective.
For our chief enemies now are not domestic, but are the Japanese
fascists and the German and Italian fascists. At this moment the
Soviet Red Army is fighting for the destiny of the Soviet Union and
of the whole of mankind, and we, for our part, are combating Japa-
nese imperialism. Japanese imperialism is continuing its aggression
with the purpose of subjugating China. The Communist Party of
China stands for uniting all the anti-Japanese forces throughout the
country to overthrow Japanese imperialism, and for co-operating
with all anti-Japanese parties, classes and nationalities; everyone,
excepting traitors, must unite in the common struggle. This has been
the consistent stand of the Communist Party. For more than four
years the Chinese people have been heroically waging the War of
Resistance, a war that has been maintained through the co-operation
of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and of all classes,
parties and nationalities. But it is not yet won, and to win it we have
to fight on and ensure that the revolutionary Three People’s Principles
are put into effect.
Why must we put the revolutionary Three People’s Principles
into effect? Because up to the present time Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s revolu-
tionary Three People’s Principles have not been translated into reality

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