In 2024, how many years of establishment will the Communist Party of Vietnam commemorate?

In 2024, how many years of establishment will the Communist Party of Vietnam commemorate?

On December 2, 2024, the Central Propaganda Department issued Guidance 175-HD/BTGTW in 2024 Download to disseminate the commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Thus, 2024 marks the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam with the propagandist theme “The Communist Party of Vietnam - bravery, intelligence, prestige, and innovation for national independence and socialism.”

Additionally, the Central Propaganda Department guides the following propaganda activities:

[1] Organize a ceremony to offer incense and flowers at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and commemorate martyrs on Bac Son Street, Hanoi city.

[2] Organize a national scientific conference (in January 2025).

[3] Organize a live broadcast program for artistic political commentary to honor, commend party committees, party organizations, and exemplary party members (in January 2025).

[4] Organize a special art program celebrating the Party, the Spring, and the nation's renewal (expected in February 2025).

[5] Organize a political-artistic program “Forever Trust in the Party” (in January 2025).

[6] Launch a campaign both domestically and internationally to collect and donate documents, materials, artifacts related to the Communist Party of Vietnam, President Ho Chi Minh, the General Secretaries of the Communist Party, and notable historical figures of the Party to the Museum of the Communist Party of Vietnam (during the commemorative occasion).

[7] Organize exhibitions of documents, images, and postal stamps with the theme “Proud of 95 years of the glorious tradition of the Communist Party of Vietnam” (in January 2025).

[8] Produce a documentary marking the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam in multiple ethnic languages to propagate among ethnic compatriots, especially minority groups (in January 2025).

[9] Produce animated films for children's propaganda (in January 2025).

[10] Organize information and propaganda activities at central and local levels in various forms (in the press, on the internet, social media; publications, propaganda materials; regular activities of political-social organizations; visual promotion activities) according to specific conditions of each locality, unit.

In 2024, how many years of establishment will the Communist Party of Vietnam commemorate?​ (Image from the Internet)

What is the purpose of the Communist Party of Vietnam?

According to the Charter of the Communist Party of Vietnam 2011:

The Communist Party of Vietnam, founded and trained by comrade Ho Chi Minh, led the people to successfully carry out the August Revolution, established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam), won the invasive wars, abolished colonial and feudal policies, completed national liberation, reunification, initiated renovation, built socialism, and firmly protected national independence.

The Communist Party of Vietnam is the vanguard of the working class, simultaneously the vanguard of the working people and the Vietnamese nation; represents the faithful interests of the working class, the working people, and the nation.

The purpose of the Communist Party is to build an independent, democratic, prosperous, socially just, civilized Vietnam, without human exploitation, successfully realizing socialism, and ultimately communism.

The Communist Party takes Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's Thought as its ideological foundation and guiding principles, leverages the nation's good traditions, assimilates humanity's intellectual quintessence, grasps objective laws, the era's trends, and the country's realities to outline a correct political platform and revolutionary line, appropriate to the people's aspirations.

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Thus, the purpose of the Communist Party of Vietnam is to build an independent, democratic, prosperous, socially just, and civilized Vietnam, end human exploitation, successfully achieve socialism, and eventually communism.

What are fundamental contents of the principle of democratic centralism in Vietnam?

Based on Article 9 of the Charter of the Communist Party of Vietnam 2011, the Communist Party of Vietnam is organized according to the principle of democratic centralism. The basic contents of the principle are as follows:

- Leadership bodies at all levels of the Communist Party are elected and exercise collective leadership and individual responsibility.

- The highest leadership body of the Communist Party is the National Congress of Delegates. The leadership body at each level is the congress of delegates or the general congress of party members. Between congresses, the leadership body of the Communist Party is the Central Committee, and at each level, it is the party executive committee (abbreviated as the party committee).

- Party committees at all levels report and are accountable for their activities before the congress of the same level, the superior, and subordinate committees; and periodically inform their activity status to affiliated party organizations, exercising self-criticism and criticism.

- Party organizations and members must comply with party resolutions. The minority must submit to the majority, the subordinate must obey the superior, the individual must comply with the organization, and all organizations within the Communist Party must adhere to the National Congress of Delegates and the Central Committee.

- Resolutions of the Communist Party's leadership bodies are only executable when more than half of the members of that body approve. Before voting, each member has the right to express their opinion. Party members in the minority have the right to reserve their opinion and report to the superior committee up to the National Congress but must strictly observe the resolutions and not disseminate opinions contrary to the Communist Party’s resolutions. The competent committee reviews such opinions and does not discriminate against members with minority opinions.

- Party organizations decide on matters within their jurisdiction, but must not contradict the principles, guidelines, policies of the Communist Party, state law, and superior resolutions.