Scientific seminar 'Comrade Le Hong Son with the Vietnamese revolution and his homeland Nghe An'

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang - Member of the Politburo, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council chaired the workshop. Co-chairs included comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Nghe An province; Le Van Loi - Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Nghe An Provincial People's Committee.

Attending the workshop were comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, leaders of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province; leaders of departments, institutes, and centers under the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics; leaders of departments, branches, districts, cities, and town Party Committees under the Provincial Party Committee, the Standing Committee of the Nam Dan District Party Committee, the Party Committee of Xuan Hoa commune and representatives of the family and clan of comrade Le Hong Son; scientists and researchers.

Comrade Le Hong Son - One of 7 delegates at the Party Founding Conference

Before the conference, leaders of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Nghe An province and the Organizing Committee visited and offered flowers and incense at the tomb and memorial house of comrade Le Hong Son in Xuan Hoa commune, Nam Dan district.

Comrade Le Hong Son's birth name was Le Van Phon, commonly known as Le Van Phan (with many aliases, such as: Le Hung Quoc, Vo Hong Anh, Le Tan Anh), born in 1899 in a Confucian family in Xuan Ho village, Xuan Lieu commune, now Xuan Hoa commune, Nam Dan district, Nghe An province.

In 1920, at the age of 21, young man Le Van Phon left his family and homeland to go to Thailand, starting his revolutionary career with a new name, Le Hong Son.

He was one of the founding members of the organization “Tam Tam Xa” with new revolutionary activities that created a great resonance; one of the first members of the “Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association” and one of the effective and trusted associates of leader Nguyen Ai Quoc in training and coaching cadres to spread Marxism-Leninism to Vietnam.

Comrade Le Hong Son also played an important role in the establishment of the Annam Communist Party - one of the three predecessor organizations of our Party; at the same time, he actively participated in mobilizing and organizing the conference to unify communist organizations to establish the Communist Party of Vietnam in February 1930. When leader Nguyen Ai Quoc convened and chaired the conference to unify communist organizations; Comrade Le Hong Son was one of the seven delegates attending the conference, contributing his efforts and intelligence to the success of the Party's founding conference.

After the Communist Party of Vietnam was founded, comrade Le Hong Son was assigned to stay and work in the Vietnam Branch of the "Union of Oppressed Peoples of East Asia" of the Eastern Division of the Communist International.

In 1932, after distributing leaflets to celebrate International Labor Day on May 1, he was arrested by the Republic of China government in Shanghai and extradited to the French authorities in Indochina and imprisoned in Vinh prison. He was sentenced to death by the Southern Court in Nghe An. On February 20, 1933, he heroically sacrificed himself in his hometown.

Comrade Le Hong Son's revolutionary career, though not long, was glorious and heroic. Despite being imprisoned, tortured, enticed and bribed by the enemy three times, he always maintained the integrity of a loyal and indomitable communist soldier until he was murdered by the enemy at the age of 34.

In his opening speech, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang - Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council emphasized that the conference is an opportunity to honor and learn more deeply about the life, glorious revolutionary career and great contributions of comrade Le Hong Son to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation.

To contribute to clarifying the life, career and great contributions of comrade Le Hong Son to the Party and the Vietnamese revolution, especially his activities in contributing to the successful organization of the Conference to establish the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1930, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang suggested that delegates focus on discussing and providing information and documents on comrade Le Hong Son's contributions to the birth of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association and the establishment of the Communist Party of Vietnam; and as a staunch communist, a shining example of Vietnamese revolutionary heroism; an outstanding son of the Vietnamese people and his homeland Nghe An.

“Learning from the example of revolutionary hero, patriotic enthusiasm, and lifelong sacrifice for the Fatherland and the people of comrade Le Hong Son, we have more will to strive and determination to build our homeland and country to become increasingly rich, democratic, prosperous, civilized, happy, and steadily moving towards socialism as wished by the great President Ho Chi Minh, our heroic revolutionary predecessors, and the entire Vietnamese people,” emphasized Professor, Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang.

The welcome speech of comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Nghe An province, vividly portrayed the portrait and important contributions of comrade Le Hong Son to the patriotic movement and struggle in the period before the Party and in the campaign to establish the Communist Party of Vietnam.

“Comrade left behind a typical example of a lifetime of fighting and sacrificing for the goal and ideal of national liberation, bringing a prosperous and happy life to the people. His blood contributed to beautifying the glorious flag of our Party, beautifying the history and tradition of revolutionary struggle of Nghe An homeland, and will be forever remembered and deeply grateful to the entire Party, people, army and generations today and tomorrow,” affirmed Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy.

The Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee believes that the workshop will contribute to enriching and deepening the life and honoring the contributions of comrade Le Hong Son to the revolutionary cause of our Party and people.

The documents of the workshop will be extremely valuable historical data of the Party, the State and Nghe An province to serve the work of studying, researching, propagating and educating patriotism, national pride and self-respect for generations, especially the young generation today and tomorrow.

“In particular, this workshop will contribute an important scientific basis to propose to the Party and State to consider recognizing comrade Le Hong Son as an exemplary senior leader of the Party,” said the Secretary of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee; at the same time, on behalf of the provincial leaders, I would like to sincerely thank the leaders of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics for their attention, direction, and coordination in organizing the workshop, and the scientists and delegates who have devoted their love, enthusiasm, and time to researching and collecting documents and materials about comrade Le Hong Son to contribute to the workshop.

Proposal for consideration of recognition lOutstanding senior leaders of the Party and the Vietnamese revolutionMale

The Organizing Committee of the Scientific Conference “Comrade Le Hong Son with the Vietnamese Revolution and his homeland Nghe An” received nearly 34 reports and presentations; including 10 reports, presentations and opinions presented directly by representatives of comrade Le Hong Son's family.

Thereby, scientists and delegates focused on analyzing and clarifying the life, glorious revolutionary career and great contributions of comrade Le Hong Son to the Vietnamese revolutionary movement; especially his contributions to the birth of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association and the Communist Party of Vietnam in February 1930.

An important content mentioned in many reports and discussions at the conference was the role of hometown and family traditions in nurturing, forming, and developing the patriotic ideology and revolutionary aspirations of comrade Le Hong Son, from a patriotic youth to a typical communist soldier during the Party building period.

Mr. Le Dang Que - representative of the family and clan of comrade Le Hong Son respectfully thanked the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee and organizations, agencies, units, researchers, scientists... for organizing the workshop.

He proposed to further strengthen the extensive propaganda activities about the sacrifice of comrade Le Hong Son; proposed Nghe An province and some localities to study the naming of streets after Le Hong Son; Party committees and authorities at all levels should continue to pay attention to renovating comrade Le Hong Son's memorial house; requested competent authorities to consider and recognize comrade Le Hong Son as a typical predecessor of the Vietnamese revolution.

In his closing remarks at the conference, Prof. Dr. Le Van Loi - Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics affirmed: The results of the conference are a scientific basis to continue promoting propaganda and education on patriotism and the glorious revolutionary tradition of the Party and the nation, especially nurturing the ideals of the young generations and our cadres, party members and people to enthusiastically study, work creatively, and practically contribute to the cause of building and firmly defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.

Prof. Dr. Le Van Loi said that he would absorb all the opinions of scientists and delegates to edit, revise, and supplement them as documents to serve the research and study of comrade Le Hong Son in the coming time.

Receiving the results of the workshop, Prof. Dr. Le Van Loi requested the responsible agencies and units of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Nghe An Provincial Party Committee to closely coordinate in developing the Project, continue to research and collect documents to further clarify the life, career and great contributions of comrade Le Hong Son to present to the Politburo, proposing to add him to the list of "exemplary senior leaders of the Party and the Vietnamese revolution".