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FOR THE MOBILIZATION OF
ALL THE NATION’S FORCES FOR VICTORY
IN THE WAR OF RESISTANCE

August 25, 1937

A. The Lukouchiao Incident of July 7 marked the beginning of
the Japanese imperialist all-out invasion of China south of the Great
Wall. The fight put up by the Chinese troops at Lukouchiao marked
the beginning of China’s nation-wide War of Resistance. The ceaseless
Japanese attacks, the people’s resolute struggle, the national bour-
geoisie’s tendency towards resistance, the Communist Party’s vigorous
advocacy and firm application of a national united front policy and
the nation-wide support this policy has won — all these have com-
pelled the Chinese authorities to begin changing their policy of non-
resistance, as pursued ever since the September 18th Incident of 1931,
to a policy of resistance since the Lukouchiao Incident, and have
caused the Chinese revolution to develop beyond the stage reached
after the December 9th Movement, i.e., the stage of ending the civil
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war and preparing for resistance, into the stage of actual resistance.
The initial changes in the Kuomintang’s policy with the Sian Incident
and the Third Plenary Session of its Central Executive Committee as
their starting point, Mr. Chiang Kai-shek’s Lushan statement of July
17 on the question of resistance to Japan, and many of his measures
of national defence, all deserve commendation. The troops at the
front, whether the land and air forces or the local armed units, have
all fought courageously and demonstrated the heroic spirit of the
Chinese nation. In the name of the national revolution, the Chinese

This was an outline for propaganda and agitation written by Comrade Mao
Tse-tung in August 1937 for the propaganda organs of the Central Committee of
the Chinese Communist Party. It was approved by the enlarged meeting of the
Political Bureau of the Central Committee at Lochuan, northern Shensi.

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