Notice Regarding Study and Propagation
of the Central Committee’s “July 7th”
Declaration
 (July 8, 1946)
To all bureaus, and to be transmitted to all provincial committees and district
Party committees:
	 1.	 Discussion of the Central Committee’s “July 7th” declaration1 should be
launched within the Party to unite comrades throughout the Party to carry
out the Central Committee’s line and eradicate the feelings of pessimism and
hopelessness that exist among some comrades in the Party.
	 2.	 Guide people outside the Party to discuss the current political situation during discussion meetings, try to get them to agree with our Party’s proposals,
and unite all progressive elements and centrists to act in concert with our
Party.
	 3.	 Use the various points in the declaration as topics to be developed in newspaper and periodical articles or in speeches. For example, that the American
reactionaries and the Chinese reactionaries are colluding with each other to
harm China; that all attacks by the reactionaries must and can be defeated;
that the fact that fascists are rampant in China right now is not an indication
of their strength and vitality but rather a sign of their weakness and their last
gasp before collapse; that international and domestic democratic forces are
growing stronger and are sufficient to defeat all the reactionaries; the importance of the four demands in the declaration and the need to realize them; that
some people’s inadequate recognition of the bright prospects internationally
and for China is mistaken; the importance of the patriotic united front; the
importance of uniting all American democratic personages, and so on.
	 4.	 Print the declaration on leaflets and distribute them widely in major cities
and among the Guomindang troops.
Central Propaganda Department
1.  See “The Reactionaries’ Schemes Will Ultimately Fail,” June 30, 1946, in this volume.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-196
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Our source for this text is Mao Zedong wenji, Vol. 4, pp. 148–49, where it is reproduced
from Mao’s handwritten manuscript.