Speech at a Meeting of Cadres at and Above the Regimental Level of the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment[1]

(October 25, 1935)

(1) We have victoriously reached our destination. That we have been able to achieve such results through a year of struggle and have obtained all the conditions for smashing the new "encirclement and suppression" is due to the correctness of the Party's leadership. (2) At present, the revolutionary situation has reached the break of dawn. (3) The current tasks are: to carry out military and political education; to win over the masses and expand the Red Army; to improve living conditions and replenish clothing and bedding.

[1] This is part of a report delivered by Mao Zedong at a meeting of cadres at and above the regimental level of the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment.