Symposium on the revolutionary career of comrade Phan Dang Luu

Attending the conference were: Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen The Ky - former member of the Party Central Committee (12th term); Chairman of the Central Council for Theory and Criticism of Literature and Arts, and representatives of leaders and officials of Yen Thanh district.

Delegates attending the symposium. Photo: Anh Tuan

Delegates attending the conference listened to Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen The Ky talk about the life and career of comrade Phan Dang Luu - an outstanding revolutionary predecessor of the Party.

Comrade Phan Dang Luu was born on May 5, 1902, in Trang Thanh commune (now Hoa Thanh commune), Yen Thanh district, Nghe An province, in a family of patriotic Confucian scholars. From a young age, he was aware of the revolution early, was a staunch soldier in the patriotic movement against French colonialism and became an outstanding revolutionary predecessor of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen The Ky gives a talk on the revolutionary career of comrade Phan Dang Luu. Photo: Anh Tuan

Comrade Phan Dang Luu had many merits and contributions, together with the Party Central Committee, steering the revolutionary boat through difficult times, especially the period of 1936-1940, contributing to the Party's revolutionary cause moving forward steadily.

With 39 years of age, 16 years of continuous revolutionary activities, including more than 7 years of imprisonment in imperialist prisons, comrade Phan Dang Luu devoted and sacrificed his whole life to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation, becoming a typical senior leader of the Party and the Vietnamese revolution.

Although the heroic revolutionary life of comrade Phan Dang Luu was short, his contributions to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation were very important and great. Mentioning Phan Dang Luu is mentioning a steadfast, exemplary communist soldier, with deep patriotism and love for the people, a revolutionary leader with a far-sighted vision, full of strategy, cleverness, courage, and resilience; an excellent pioneer journalist, writer, and theorist, typical of the Party and the revolution of our country.

The great contributions and shining communist example of comrade Phan Dang Luu are forever respected, remembered and deeply grateful for by our entire Party, people, army and future generations.

Overview of the conference. Photo by Anh Tuan

Proud to be the homeland of outstanding revolutionary predecessors, in the new period, cadres, party members and people of Yen Thanh district deeply understand and inherit the revolutionary cause, striving to contribute their efforts and intelligence to the development and advancement of the locality./.