The CPC Central Committee’s Decision on Communist International Executive Committee Presidium’s Proposal to Dissolve Communist International

On May 15, 1943, the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, to meet the needs of the development of the World War Against Fascism and taking into account the changes that had taken place in the international situation and the international workers' movement, the growth and political maturity of the communist parties and their leaders in various countries, made the "Dissolution of the Communist International".

On May 20, Dimitrov, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, sent a telegram to Mao Zedong in Yan'an, asking the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to discuss urgently the proposal to dissolve the Comintern and to communicate its views.

On May 26, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on the Proposal of the Bureau of the Executive Committee of the Communist International for the Dissolution of the Communist International", which expressed its full agreement with the proposal of the Bureau of the Executive Committee of the Communist International for the dissolution of the Communist International and declared that “with immediate effect, the Communist Party of China is released from all obligations under the Constitution and resolutions of the Congresses of the Communist International.”

The “Decision” affirmed the historical mission of the Comintern had been fulfilled, considering that it had not only protected revolutionary Marxism in Europe, America and in Japan, "helped the advanced workers to unite into a genuine workers' party, supported the socialist Soviet Union, opposed fascism and fascist warfare indefatigably; but had also used all its possibilities to help the liberation movements of the oppressed peoples of the East, helping the advanced workers of the oppressed peoples to form their own political parties and to become the vanguard of the people at the forefront of all liberation movements".

The “Decision” also noted in particular that the Comintern had "done everything in its power to assist the Chinese people during all its existence", thus confirming the great merits of the Comintern in helping the Chinese revolutionary cause.

The “Decision” also explained the reasons for the dissolution of the Communist International, mainly: "The situation within the nations and internationally has become more complex and this original form of organization is no longer adapted to the continued growth of the workers' movement in all countries"; "In the present war of liberation against the fascist alliance, it is all the more necessary for the Communist Parties in each country to solve all problems independently in accordance with the special situation and historical conditions of their own nations, and to strive for a wider and more rapid national upsurge and mass movement, to achieve complete and total victory"; "the growth and political maturity of the Communist Parties and their leading cadres", etc. Therefore, "the dissolution of the Communist International was more favorable than its continued existence."

The “Decision” also pointed out that "the Communist Party of China had received much help from the Communist International in its revolutionary struggle, but for a long time the Chinese Communists had been able to decide their own political guidelines, policies, and actions in full independence and accordance with the specific conditions of their own people".

As Marxist-Leninists, "the Chinese Communists will continue to apply and exert Marxism-Leninism flexibly according to their own national conditions in order to serve the cause of our nation's resistance and nation-building".

On the same evening, the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China convened a meeting of cadres in Yan'an and conveyed the two documents of the Bureau of the Executive Committee of the Communist International and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the dissolution of the Communist International.