Timely refute wrong and hostile views

During that process, propaganda work to protect the Party's ideological foundation and fight against and refute erroneous and hostile viewpoints was carried out synchronously with timely columns and articles.

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During a business trip to Nghia Dan district in May 2022, we met Mr. Le Minh Huyen - Secretary of the Canh Yen village Party cell, Nghia Yen commune, Nghia Dan district. Through the conversation, we truly respected knowing that Mr. Huyen has held the position of Party cell Secretary for 14 years (from 2008 to present). At each stage, Mr. Huyen has always been enthusiastic and persistent in his assigned responsibilities, always taking the lead and being exemplary in emulation movements for socio-economic development.

Leaders of Nghia Yen commune (Nghia Dan) visited a commodity production model in the area. Photo: NN

With the responsibility of a Party member and Party cell secretary, Mr. Le Minh Huyen and his comrades in the Party Committee and Party cell regularly mobilize people to comply with the Party's guidelines, policies and laws of the State, actively contribute to building new rural areas, and making villages and communes more prosperous. In particular, for many years, Mr. Huyen and the Party Committee have actively propagated to Party members and people to raise their vigilance against false arguments and "peaceful evolution" plots of hostile forces.

To fulfill his duties and responsibilities, Mr. Huyen promptly grasped official information from the commune Party Committee and the Party newspaper, in which articles defending the Party's ideological foundation; fighting and refuting erroneous and hostile views in Nghe An Newspaper were important documents. Mr. Huyen said: "Depending on the time, Nghe An Newspaper has had very sharp articles refuting erroneous and hostile views. Along with documents provided by the commune Party Committee and information from those articles, we synthesized, propagated, and disseminated to local people to clearly understand and raise vigilance about the plots and tricks of hostile forces...".

For Mr. Vo Xuan Nghi in Tan Thanh block, Hoa Hieu ward (Thai Hoa town), Nghe An Newspaper has long been a "friend". When mentioning the innovation as well as the quality of news and articles of the newspaper, Mr. Nghi said: "I am active in the town's News Club, receiving a lot of information from the Party Committee and Propaganda Department at all levels, but every day reading Nghe An Newspaper, we update information very quickly and accurately. In particular, the articles on protecting the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against the views and plots of hostile forces have provided us with valuable materials to propagate to the people in the block to understand clearly, raise vigilance...".

“In the era of widespread internet application and multi-dimensional explosion of social network information, information from the press, especially the Party newspaper, plays a very valuable role in guiding public opinion. Nowadays, people access social networks a lot, but sometimes they cannot distinguish between real and fake information when accessing it. Therefore, it is even more necessary for propaganda cadres at all levels, cadres and party members at the grassroots level to promptly grasp official information to propagate and disseminate to people to understand the situation, and refute false information,” said Ms. Cao Thi Minh Nguyet - Head of the Propaganda Department of Thai Hoa Town Party Committee. Ms. Nguyet added that Nghe An Newspaper has been performing well in its role of guiding public opinion, when information about plots and tricks of hostile forces or specific cases of acts of sabotage against the Party and State, although it is in another area, the Propaganda Department of Thai Hoa town promptly synthesizes and disseminates to cadres, party members and people, thereby effectively preventing it.

A corner of Thai Hoa town seen from above. Photo: To Thanh Thin

Timely refute false and hostile arguments

The comprehensive renovation of our country has achieved remarkable achievements, as General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong once affirmed, "Our country has never had such a foundation, potential, position and international prestige as today." That is the result of the whole Party, the whole people and the whole army's persistent efforts, inheriting the revolutionary tradition of our ancestors. However, every day, there are still hostile forces that sabotage the development of our country with many tricks and plots of "peaceful evolution". Hostile forces have used the tricks of "social criticism", fighting for "democracy", "human rights", building "civil society", protecting sovereignty and territory... to slander and distort the guidelines, policies and strategies of the Party and State; inciting hostile thoughts and attitudes.

In particular, in recent times, when our Party and State have proactively stepped up the fight against ideological, moral, and lifestyle degradation, manifestations of “self-evolution” and “self-transformation” and handled erring officials, hostile forces have sought every way to distort and fabricate with the aim of hindering the revolutionary cause and the renovation process; distorting Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought. At each specific time, hostile forces have thoroughly exploited difficulties, obstacles, and newly arising problems to intensify and fiercely sabotage our country with a series of new, sophisticated, and cunning arguments and tricks.

Therefore, the struggle to protect the Party's ideological foundation and the country's development always requires regular implementation. Together with the system of press agencies, Nghe An Newspaper has actively participated in this work in both print and electronic newspapers and social networks. Up to now, Nghe An Electronic Newspaper has thousands of articles, of which over 200 articles in the first 6 months of 2022 alone clearly analyzed the plots and distorted arguments of hostile forces and were shared on social networks. In print newspapers, the column "Protecting the Party's ideological foundation" is maintained weekly. All have become important documents for cadres, party members and people to follow and grasp information.

Some articles fighting and refuting wrong and hostile views on Nghe An electronic newspaper.

Assessing the propaganda work to protect the Party's ideological foundation and fight against the wrong and hostile views of Nghe An Newspaper, comrade Pham Ngoc Canh - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department said: Nghe An Newspaper quickly grasped public opinion information and organized many quality articles. All articles clearly showed the views of the entire political system and the people in strengthening the fight to defeat all plots and "peaceful evolution" activities of hostile forces; proactively preventing and refuting wrong and hostile views.

According to comrade Pham Ngoc Canh, in recent years, hostile, reactionary, and opportunistic political forces have thoroughly exploited the internet and social networks to sabotage our country's revolution. Based on that reality, Nghe An Newspaper, in coordination with its collaborators, has developed many articles defending the Party's ideological foundation, clearly analyzing the plots and tricks of hostile forces, published on electronic newspapers, and from there, shared on social networks, refuting bad and toxic information, contributing with the entire political system to propagate to all classes of people to clearly understand and participate in the fight against and refute erroneous and hostile viewpoints.

We will continue to direct, urge and accompany Nghe An Newspaper in this field to work with all levels, sectors and people to protect the Party's ideological foundation, fight against the plots and activities of "peaceful evolution" of hostile forces in the fields of ideology and culture. This is an important immediate and long-term task of the entire political system under the leadership of the Party. We must be flexible, proactive, closely combine "building" and "fighting", taking "building" as the main thing, contributing to stabilizing politics, ideology, security and order, creating favorable conditions for socio-economic development".

Comrade Pham Ngoc Canh - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department