Politics and Mass Movements Are
Closely Linked
(March 30, 1926)1

3. Comrade Mao Zedong proposed that Comrade Gao Yuhan be appointed
head of political training at the Peasant Movement Training Institute.

(Decision) Approved.

4. Comrade Mao Zedong reported on the matter of selecting students from
Guangxi. Previously it was resolved that thirty students should be selected from
the training institute for propaganda workers run by the party in Wuzhou. Yesterday, however, we became aware that, according to Comrades Li Xielei and Yang
Wenzhao, students at the training institute for propaganda workers are drawn on
an equal basis from various xian in Guangxi, but the peasant movement in
Guangxi should begin in the xian near Wuzhou. It is requested that the previous
resolution be modified somewhat.

(Decision) The thirty students should still be selected under the responsibility
of the Wuzhou municipal party bureau, but should not be restricted to those from
the training institute for propaganda workers. The only requirement is that all of
them must be young comrades who are residents of various xian near Wuzhou
and who are working resolutely in the peasant movement.2

The minutes of the Guomindang Peasant Department from which this text is taken were
published in Zhongguo nongmin, No. 5, 1926. Our translation has been made from that
source.

1. This text comprises Mao's contributions at the Second Meeting of the Peasant
Movement Committee under the Guomindang Peasant Department, held on the date
indicated. The numbers preceding each paragraph are those attributed to them in the
minutes.

2. These students were being selected to attend the forthcoming sixth session of the
Peasant Movement Training Institute, of which Mao would be the principal.