“Of the people and for the people” is the most important goal and characteristic.

Illustrated propaganda poster

During the previous resistance wars for national defense, in some areas occupied by the enemy, there were last words from those who went before, from heroic martyrs, leaving messages to those who came after, to their relatives: "Viet Cong are our people", "Ho Chi Minh is the leader of the nation", "Ho Chi Minh's Party is the true party for the people"...

In times of chaos and war, not knowing which side their loved ones would follow, they sent those words to guide them. And another story, 20 years after the country was unified, the Party was in power and directly led all aspects of the country, had a lot of power, a father who was a communist party member, a hero of the armed forces, who was present in the Southern battlefield for exactly 21 years (1954 - 1975) told his son that during the fiercest war, there were places, times when there were no more party cells, no more party members, they were defeated by the enemy, sacrificed or were imprisoned, the people - the masses outside the Party declared themselves party members and together they established party cells to continue leading the fight. He told that story and concluded that our people are creative and heroic, the patriotic people gave birth to the Party and the Party grew, could only grow, from the people, and last forever in the hearts of the people, not from somewhere high up in the sky. The policy must be in line with the people's wishes to have vitality, to gather people's hearts. Those were the last words he said to his son - like the last words of a soldier.

Officers and soldiers of Tri Le Border Guard Station help a single-parent family in the area harvest the winter-spring rice crop. Photo courtesy

Those messages from the heroic martyrs of the past are worth pondering many times. Communists are in general, they can also be Russian, Chinese... and they mainly come from the ideological problem in the class struggle. As for the Viet Cong, they are Vietnamese people, mostly coming from the spirit of patriotism, awareness, responsibility for the independence of the nation, wanting to build a strong democratic nation. As for the Party of Ho Chi Minh, with patriotism, national spirit, democracy and freedom, with the moral example through the reality of a leader's entire life, enough for the people to believe that it is a true Party for the people.

With the ideology that the people are the root, taking the people as the root, but the people are the masters, the people are the masters, not "subjects" like in feudal times; with the morality of selflessly serving the people and the style of "respect and courtesy to the people", Ho Chi Minh is a great personality of the nation and humanity in a flesh-and-blood relationship with the people. The Party was born from the people, and was protected and helped by the people to grow up. The vitality of the Party originates from the people. The Party has no self-goal. For the people, to serve the people, there must be a Party. The strength of the Party comes from the people. The Party must be the Party of the people, the "offspring of the nation".

The Party must always stand with the people, stand among the people, to do things that benefit the people, stay away from and oppose to not do anything that is harmful to the people.

By knowing how to promote the great values ​​of national traditions, with the leadership method of setting an example of personality and brave sacrifice "for the people", the Party has become the Party leading the people, thereby creating the success of the August Revolution in 1945, regaining a lost country, establishing a state following Ho Chi Minh's orientation as a democratic state. Accordingly, later on, it continued to determine that it was necessary to build a state of the people, by the people, for the people and the Party strived to fulfill its mission as the vanguard party of the nation.

Transaction at the one-stop shop in Hung Binh ward (Vinh city). Photo courtesy

The most important characteristic of our state, as well as the most important characteristic of the Party, is of the people and for the people. There is no and will never be any characteristic more important than that. “Of the people and for the people” is the most sacred goal, the living soul, noble and consistent, steadfast and progressive, it is the command, the strength, the ideal, the loyalty and the longevity. At any time and place, with anyone, whether the highest-ranking leader or an ordinary party member, if they forget that, if that spirit fades, if they distance themselves from and forget the people, or if they allow situational goals to obscure and suppress that goal, even temporarily, it is still a very serious mistake, a mistake of principle, a mistake of core viewpoint, of steadfast ideals. Such mistakes, whether due to bad motives, poor awareness, or irresponsibility, are still dangerous, similar or close to betrayal of the people, the kind of mistakes that can contribute to the collapse of a great cause. It is impossible not to criticize and condemn this kind of mistake.

Everyone must have the responsibility to fight together against the wrong ideas and actions that abandon the goal and nature of “of the people and for the people”.

Supporting the Party means supporting the Party's integrity, not any degradation. To support is to debate, to criticize, to fight against subjective mistakes when in power. For those people or agencies who always use the name of protecting the Party to "label" and stereotype opinions about straightforward, truthful, honest, dedicated and constructive opinions, in order to "silence" the people, "shut the ears" of all levels, sectors and society, hinder information transparency, and prevent people from fully understanding the nature of the situation and having the right attitude. Those who often make such stereotypes either have a very poor level of awareness, or want to flatter superiors who like to flatter, or to show off to everyone, to show off to the organization that they are people with "good positions and viewpoints" but in fact it is just a deception... Whatever the reason, it is harmful to the Party and the State of the people. The entire Party and the entire nation must enhance their resistance, cannot be passive and lose their fighting spirit, continue to fight against degradation, firmly uphold the goal of "nation and democracy" that the Party has set forth since its founding, maintain the nature of "of the people and for the people", and strive tirelessly for the goal of "a rich people, a strong country, a democratic, equitable and civilized society".

Our Party has just celebrated its 89th founding anniversary. We wish that in the coming time, the Party will always strive to realize and maintain its goals and nature of being "of the people and for the people", worthy of Ho Chi Minh and the heroic martyrs who sacrificed for the Fatherland.