Well prepared activities to celebrate the 120th birthday of General Secretary Le Hong Phong

Comrade Le Hong Phong, real name Le Huy Doan, was born in 1902 in Thong Lang commune (now Hung Thong commune), Hung Nguyen district, Nghe An province. At the end of 1923, comrade Le Hong Phong and his close friend, comrade Pham Hong Thai, secretly went to Siam (Thailand) to meet Vietnamese patriots. In 1924, Le Hong Phong went to Guangzhou (China) to join the Tam Tam Xa group and then met leader Nguyen Ai Quoc, who enlightened him about the Marxist-Leninist revolution. From then on, comrade Le Hong Phong was determined to follow the path of national salvation of leader Nguyen Ai Quoc.

After the Nghe-Tinh Soviet movement (1930-1931), due to the savage and brutal terror of the French colonialists, the Vietnamese revolution encountered numerous difficulties and suffered heavy losses. In that situation, in November 1931, following the directive of the Communist International, comrade Le Hong Phong returned to the country to lead the restoration and development of the party organization, leading the Indochina revolution through a difficult and dangerous period.

In March 1934, comrade Le Hong Phong and a number of comrades held a conference to establish the Party's leadership committee abroad (at that time called the Party's Overseas Command Committee). The Overseas Command Committee functioned as a provisional Central Executive Committee with comrade Le Hong Phong as Secretary and comrade Ha Huy Tap as member in charge of propaganda work. The Overseas Command Committee prepared and decided to convene the Party's first Congress in Macau (China) from March 27 to 31, 1935. The Congress passed the Political Resolution, the Party Charter, a number of other important documents and elected a Central Executive Committee of 13 members headed by comrade Le Hong Phong.

At the end of 1934, comrade Le Hong Phong led the Party delegation to attend the 7th Congress of the Communist International held in Moscow (Soviet Union) from July 25 to August 25, 1935. He presented an important report on the struggle of the peoples in Indochina and was highly appreciated by the Congress. The Congress passed a resolution recognizing the Indochinese Communist Party as an independent branch of the Communist International and elected comrade Le Hong Phong as a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International.

In July 1936, in Shanghai (China), he convened and chaired the Central Conference to supplement the Resolution of the First Congress, directed the change in the Party's organizational and strategic direction, and advocated the establishment of a broad People's Anti-Imperialist United Front, including various forms of struggle and activities from secret, illegal to public, semi-public, legal, semi-legal, with the aim of "preparing conditions for the national liberation movement to develop", preparing in all aspects to bring the revolutionary movement to its climax from 1936 to 1939.

In November 1937, comrade Le Hong Phong secretly returned to Saigon, and together with the Central Committee actively directed the implementation of the Party's new strategic policy. On June 22, 1939, comrade Le Hong Phong was arrested for the first time by the French colonialists in Cho Lon and sentenced to 6 months in prison. On December 23, 1939, they brought him back to his hometown in Nghe An under house arrest. On January 20, 1940, he was arrested for the second time by the French colonialists and imprisoned in Lon prison, Saigon; at the end of 1940, they exiled him to Con Dao. Here, knowing that comrade Le Hong Phong was an important figure of the Party, the French colonialists found every way to torture and brutally mistreat him. He still upheld his revolutionary spirit, did not confess a word, and at the same time actively mobilized and directed his fellow prisoners to fight against the enemy's beatings and against the harsh prison rules. His health gradually weakened by revenge and illness, he breathed his last at noon on September 6, 1942 after leaving a message: "Please report to the Party that, until the last moment, comrade Le Hong Phong still firmly believed in the glorious victory of the revolution."

Forty years old, twenty years of continuous, heroic and enthusiastic revolutionary activities, comrade Le Hong Phong devoted his whole life to the glorious revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation. He left behind a shining example of revolutionary ethics, love for family, homeland and country, sacrificing his whole life for the independence and freedom of the Fatherland, the happiness of the people, being loyal to the Party and filial to the people.