Luo [Fu]
Mao [Zedong]
Peng [Dehuai] and Ren [Bishi] are also to be informed.
[Ren] Bishi:
The Situation and Tasks After
the Achievement of Domestic Peace
(March 6, 1937)
1. The legal recognition by the Third Plenum of the successful peaceful
resolution achieved in the great Xi'an negotiations has opened a new stage
throughout the country, characterized by the cessation of civil war, a concerted
effort to resist Japan, and peaceful unification for the sake of joint opposition to
foreign aggression. It has also led to a transitional period toward the effective
establishment of a nationwide united front and the beginning of a nationwide war
of resistance. The duration of this period will be determined by the outcome of
the struggle among various forces. Meanwhile, all sorts of twists and changes
may arise, but there will be no change in the overall direction.


2. Today's task is to consolidate domestic peace and prepare for the war of
resistance against Japan so as to advance the practical work of the nationwide
united front and the beginning of the resistance war. The Party's work continues
to be participating actively in the movement to resist Japan and save the nation,
and becoming this movement's central leading force. All work must be modified
to suit this overall task.


The Red Army should take advantage of the opportunity to strengthen its
internal political and military training, and to enhance the Party's role as a
fortress within the Red Army. It should reeducate its cadres to enable them to
assume new tasks in the new situation, tighten military discipline, learn mass
work, and strive to become a model for all anti-Japanese armed forces.
Luo [Fu]
Mao [Zedong]


Our source for this text is Wenxian he yanjiu, no. 4 (1985) (p. 211 of the annual volume).


1. See above, the note to the text of March 1, 1937.


2. The editors of Wenxian he yanjiu state that this should probably read "national
defense conference."


Our source for this text is Mao Zedong wenji, Vol. 1, pp. 495-96. It also appears, with
variant punctuation in the first sentence, in Wenxian he yanjiu, No. 4 (1985) (p. 212 of the
annual compendium).