Democratic Parties and Personages Announce Opinions on the Current Political Situation

Democratic parties and democrats supported Mao Zedong's statement of "Eight Conditions for Peace".

From July 1946 to January 1949, in only two and a half years, the main forces of the KMT army deployed by Chiang Kai-shek to launch a full-scale civil war were basically annihilated, and Chiang Kai-shek came to the end of his rope. Under the circumstances of the rapid and victorious development of the People's Liberation War, on New Year's Day, 1949, Chiang Kai-shek had to pretend to seek peace and issued a statement of seeking peace with the CPC. In response to Chiang Kai-shek's false peace offensive, on January 14, 1949, Mao Zedong issued the “Statement on the Present Situation”, putting forward eight terms for reaching true peace.

These terms were: (1) punishing war criminals; (2) abolishing the bogus constitution; (3) abolishing the bogus constituted authority; (4) reorganizing all reactionary troops on democratic principles; (5) confiscating bureaucrat-capital; (6) reforming the land system; (7) abrogating the treasonable treaties; (8) convening a political consultative conference without the participation of reactionary elements, and form a democratic coalition government to take over all the powers of the reactionary Nanking KMT government and of its subordinate governments at all levels. This statement was unanimously endorsed and supported by the people of the whole country and all democratic parties.

The representatives of democratic parties, people's organizations and other democrats such as Li Jishen, Shen Junru, Ma Xulun and Guo Moruo, 55 people who had already arrived in the Liberated Areas, responded positively to the policy ideas of the CPC and issued a joint statement on January 22, entitled "Opinions on the Present Situation", stating clearly that they were "willing to make their contribution under the leadership of the CPC" to the convening of a new CPPCC conference and the establishment of a democratic coalition government, unanimously recognizing the leading position of the CPC in the Chinese Revolution.

They also profoundly exposed the fake peace offer of the KMT reactionaries, pointing out that the KMT reactionaries were on the verge of collapse, and that they were “desperate in their military struggle and have changed their tactics in an attempt to linger on with political intrigues” in an attempt to "buy time to allow the remnants of the counter-revolutionary forces to make their last stand in the southern part of the Great River or in remote provinces". They stressed that "the revolution must be carried out to the end and there is no possibility of compromise and reconciliation between revolution and counter-revolution", and expressed their full support for the "Eight Terms for Peace" put forward by Mao Zedong, the leader of the CPC. Democratic parties and personages issued “Opinions on the Present Situation”, which supported and inspired the great cause led by the CPC and made significant contributions to the ultimate victory of the People's Liberation War.