Democratic parties and non-party democrats stood with the Communist Party in boycotting the “national assembly” and the Kuomintang government, and in opposing its so-called “constitution”. Shown here are leaders of the Chinese Democratic League with representatives of the Communist Party in mid-November 1946 (left to right): Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao, Luo Longji, Li Weihan, Zhang Shenfu, Zhang Bojun, Shen Junru, Dong Biwu and Huang Yanpei.