What is the August 1st Declaration?

The August 1st Declaration is: On August 1st, 1935, the delegation of China * * * Producer Party in * * * International drafted the Letter to All Compatriots by the Soviet Government of China and the Central Committee of China * * * Producer Party for Anti-Japanese Salvation (the August 1st Declaration), which was awarded to the Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Union and China * * * on October 1st.

The declaration calls on the people of the whole country to unite, stop the civil war, resist Japan and save the nation, and form a national defense government and an anti-Japanese coalition. This declaration has played a positive role in promoting the anti-Japanese United front work and the anti-Japanese national salvation movement.

The historical significance of the August 1st Declaration

The August 1st Declaration highlighted the ethnic contradictions between China and Japan, put forward the political proposition of resisting Japan and saving the nation, initially corrected the "Left" closed-doorism and expanded the scope of the anti-Japanese national united front camp. This shows that the political strategy of China's * * * production party has begun to change. After the publication of the "August 1st Declaration", it soon spread to China, and had a wide impact.

By the end of 1935, Beiping, Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, Taiyuan and other major cities had spread widely among overseas Chinese. The August 1st Declaration, together with the two declarations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on November 13th and 28th, aroused strong repercussions in all social strata and effectively promoted the upsurge of the national anti-Japanese national salvation movement.

The publication of the "August 1st Declaration" marks the basic formation of our Party's strategic front for establishing an anti-Japanese national united front. In practice, it won the warm support of the people all over the country and people from all walks of life, and had a great political influence in the Kuomintang-ruled areas, which effectively encouraged and promoted the development of the anti-Japanese national salvation movement.