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10. Achieve national unity against Japan.
Build up the Anti-Japanese National United Front of all political
parties and groups, people in all walks of life and all armed forces
on the basis of Kuomintang-Communist co-operation in order to lead
the War of Resistance, unite in good faith and meet the national crisis.
D. It is imperative to discard the policy of resistance by the govern-
ment alone and to enforce the policy of total resistance by the whole
nation. The government must unite with the people, fully restore the
revolutionary spirit of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, put the above Ten-Point Pro-
gramme into effect and strive for complete victory. Together with the
masses of the people and the armed forces under its leadership, the
Chinese Communist Party will firmly adhere to this programme and
stand in the forefront of the War of Resistance, defending the mother-
land to the last drop of its blood. In keeping with its consistent policy,
the Chinese Communist Party is ready to stand side by side with the
Kuomintang and the other political parties and groups and unite
with them in building the solid Great Wall of the national united
front to defeat the infamous Japanese aggressors and strive for a new
China which is independent, happy and free. To achieve this goal,
we must firmly repudiate the traitors’ theories of compromise and
capitulation, and combat national defeatism according to which it is
impossible to defeat the Japanese aggressors. The Chinese Communist
Party firmly believes that the Japanese aggressors can definitely be
defeated provided the above Ten-Point Programme is carried out.
If our 450 million countrymen all exert themselves, the Chinese nation
will certainly achieve final victory!
Down with Japanese imperialism!
Long live the national revolutionary war!
Long live New China, independent, happy and free!

NOTES

1 The year 1935 witnessed a new upsurge in the popular patriotic movement
throughout the country. Students in Peking, under the leadership of the Communist
Party of China, held a patriotic demonstration on December 9, putting forward such
slogans as “Stop the civil war and unite to resist foreign aggression” and “Down
with Japanese imperialism”. This movement broke through the long reign of terror
imposed by the Kuomintang government in league with the Japanese invaders and
very quickly won the people’s support throughout the country. It is known as the