 The Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang, CPWDP, CDL, and the CPIP joined the Communists' United Front which also included several political pressure groups.The Republic of China was founded by the Kuomintang (KMT) leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1912.The Kuomintang's prior revolutionary political group, the Revive China Society, was founded on 24 November 1894.