Six-Point Proposal by Zhu De and Mao Zedong
to White Army Soldiers Regarding Guidelines
for Resisting Japan
(1934)
I. We demand that you go north to resist Japan and immediately stop attacking the soviet areas, that you put into effect [the proposition] that Chinese do not
fight against Chinese, and that you do not fight against the Red Army, but
instead aim your guns at the Japanese imperialists and the Chinese traitors!


2. We demand that soldiers resisting Japan have freedom of assembly, association, speech, and action, and that they organize a soldiers' resist-Japan association and make decisions regarding the great cause of resisting Japan, and
regarding questions concerning the soldiers themselves!


3. Let the soldiers' living conditions and treatment be improved, and let them
be paid whatever is due them. We demand that corporal punishment and reprimands be abolished, and we oppose fascist oppression and slaughter!


4. Agree with the Red Army that both sides should send representatives to
sign an agreement to establish a truce and unite to resist Japan!


5. Kill those officers who do not allow the soldiers to resist Japan, mutiny,
and come over to the Red Army, which is truly resisting Japan!


6. Do not burn or kill the workers and peasants in the soviet areas, oppose the
Guomindang's suppression of the anti-Japanese movements of the popular masses,
and unite with compatriots throughout the country to resist Japan together!


Brother soldiers of the White army!
If you do not want to become slaves without a country, and if you want to
save China, you must immediately unite to carry out these six guidelines for
resisting Japan! The Red Army is prepared to welcome your delegates at any
time to come to sign a truce and an alliance to resist Japan. Let us all unite and
go north to resist Japan!
Let the White army soldiers unite with the Red Army!
Down with Japanese imperialism!
Down with the traitorous Guomindang!


This document was first published in Shibing rike, no. I, July 1934. We have translated it
from Mao Zedongji, Vol. 4, pp. 369-70, where it is reproduced from that source.