Mao Zedong made a report against surrender at a meeting of senior Party cadres in Yan'an. The report analyzed the current situation and the prospect of the War of Resistance against Japan and put forward the current tasks, pointing out that the possibility that the Kuomintang will surrender has become the greatest danger at present, and its anti-Communist activities are a straw in the wind that it is about to surrender. The situation was caused by three factors: Japan's lure into surrender, international pressure and the vacillation of Chinese landlords and bourgeoisie. Among the three factors, the vacillation of Chinese landlords and bourgeoisie is the main cause. There are two options for the Kuomintang: either surrender or fight to the bitter end the War of Resistance against Japan. Either way, the Chinese revolution will be long and tortuous. We hope that the Kuomintang will continue to cooperate with the Communist Party, so we should bend over backwards to make it happen. The outcome of the War of Resistence against Japan is nothing more than good or bad. We should try to have a good outcome, but at the same time prepare for a bad one. And even if it is bad, we still can find a way out. The whole Party should try to prepare for it ideologically and organizationally, leverage the public opinion and unite with the masses so that we can deal with all kinds of emergencies and incidents. In any circumstance, the basic task of the Party is to consolidate and expand the anti-Japanese national United front, and stick to the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the Three Principles of the People. It is still our policy to help and urge Chiang Kai-shek to take the right path. After the Fifth Plenary Session of the Kuomintang, conflicts occurred frequently in Hebei and Shandong, especially in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, against which we must firmly resist. But we must take a self-defense posture and can never go beyond it. Unity and struggle do coexist and neither can be overlooked. Despite that, the former is still the focus of our work. The outline of the report and the outline of the conclusions reached at the meeting on June 13th were included in An Anthology of Mao Zedong’s Works (Volume II).