Autumn Harvest Uprising corrects the course of revolution
2022-06-24
As the Great Revolution failed, the CPC was forced to go underground. (The Great Revolution refers to the war waged by the Chinese people against imperialism and Northern Warlords under the cooperative leadership of the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang (KMT) from January 1924 to July 1927. It is known as the “National Revolution”. Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei “cleared the CPC” in 1927, marking the breaking down of the first cooperation between the two parties.)
On September 9, 1927, the Autumn Harvest Uprising on the Hunan-Jiangxi border broke out. The goal of attacking Hunan Province’s capital Changsha was not achieved and the uprising suffered setbacks because the military strength of reactionaries was strong, the rebel forces were scattered, and the masses were not fully mobilized.
Since then, the revolutionary method of “encircling the cities from the countryside” had started for the armed seizure of power. The Autumn Harvest Uprising, Nanchang Uprising and Guangzhou Uprising constitute three major uprisings of great significance for the development of the Chinese army. A single spark of the Autumn Harvest Uprising could start a prairie fire in the next 20 years.
On August 7, 1927, the CPC held an emergency meeting in Hankou to formulate the general policy of agrarian revolution and armed resistance against the KMT, and decided to mobilize peasants to hold the Autumn Harvest Uprising in the four provinces (Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong and Jiangxi), where strong public support could be found for the CPC.
On September 9, 1927, the Autumn Harvest Uprising on the Hunan-Jiangxi border broke out. The goal of attacking Hunan Province’s capital Changsha was not achieved and the uprising suffered setbacks because the military strength of reactionaries was strong, the rebel forces were scattered, and the masses were not fully mobilized.
On September 19, 1927, Mao Zedong proposed that the Red Army should go to the countryside where the enemy’s power was weaker to carry out armed struggle and establish revolutionary bases. He put forward these proposals in a classroom at the back building of Liren School, Wenjiashi Town, Liuyang City, Hunan Province.
Since then, the revolutionary method of “encircling the cities from the countryside” had started for the armed seizure of power. The Autumn Harvest Uprising, Nanchang Uprising and Guangzhou Uprising constitute three major uprisings of great significance for the development of the Chinese army. A single spark of the Autumn Harvest Uprising could start a prairie fire in the next 20 years.
