During the nearly century-long journey of fighting and growing up, full of sacrifice and hardship, our Party was born from the People, the Party is the offspring of the nation. For that reason, the Party is in the heart of the People, the People protect, nurture, and are ready to die for the Party.
When hearing the verse “The People love the Party as if they loved their children”, maybe someone, especially a few young people, thinks they read it wrong or heard it wrong? Why do the People call the Party “children”?
That rather surprising but simple and lovely verse is in the long poem “Thirty years of our life with the Party” by poet To Huu. To Huu wrote this poem more than sixty years ago, on the occasion of the entire Party and our entire People solemnly celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the Party’s founding (February 3, 1930 – February 3, 1960).
The People must be very fond, affectionate, and trusting of the Party in order to love it as if it were their own child. The Party belongs to the People, comes from the People, and fights and serves for the People. The loving, close, and warm word “child” is repeated many times in the poem just mentioned.
"Our Party, the child of the movement
Poor mother carries heavy suffering
Like a child born in the grass
Homeless, wind and rain
Our party was born in this world.
A drop of red blood makes the person we are today”…
Those were years full of sacrifice and hardship, when the Party and the People were closely connected.
“Live with the Party, die without leaving the Party”
A pure heart shines forever
The sun is sometimes cloudy
My heart is still red with fresh blood
The living remember the dead
Remember those lost on the road
Prison, guillotine, battlefield
Though the flesh is torn apart, the soul still lingers
Die lying down, still kissing the Party flag
Even when dead, give guns and bullets, forget the pain
Even in death we shed our clothes for each other.
A piece of rice is saved to warm the hearts of the next generation”…
During the arduous and challenging journey of fighting and growing up, the Party was in the heart of the People. The People protected, nurtured, and were willing to die for the Party, considering the Party as their own child. And the Party always trusted, loved, and was grateful to the People.
"The bird knows to miss the flock and the nest
I miss the person who suffered and raised me
Grace to people like mother, like father
People love the Party like they love their children
Poor in vegetables and porridge, only one can of rice per meal
Give me some milk to keep me going
Even when the fire is out and it's dark
Determined to live, never leave our Party
Even when the enemy interrogates the enemy
Grit your teeth and rather die than leave your Party.
Recalling the poem “Thirty years of our life with the Party” by To Huu, we further understand the very basic viewpoint of Marxism-Leninism when talking about the Communist Party: “The Communist Party is the Party of the working class, but the interests of the Communists are not only closely linked to the working class but also inseparable from the interests of the nation”…
From that perspective, President Ho Chi Minh said: “Our Party is the vanguard of the proletariat, and must make its class lead the people”. In his political report at the Second National Congress of the Party (1951), President Ho Chi Minh emphasized: “The Vietnam Workers’ Party is the Party of the working class and working people, so it must be the Party of the Vietnamese nation”. The 2013 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam affirms: “The Communist Party of Vietnam – the vanguard of the working class, is also the vanguard of the working people and the Vietnamese nation, a loyal representative of the interests of the working class, working people and the entire nation”.
The Party is the child of the People, the child of the Vietnamese race. The Party is the pioneer on the path to national liberation, the hammer and sickle flag blends with the red flag with yellow star to call on all classes of people.
"Stand up to save yourself and win prosperity."
Stand up to save freedom and independence
Stand up for land and food
Stand on grass and straw
Hammer and sickle are not afraid of brutal guns and swords.
Under the Party's flag, our people united millions of people as one, creating revolutionary high tides in 1930-1931, 1936-1939, 1939-1945 leading to the earth-shaking August 1945 General Uprising.
"The Party's call, one day thunder exploded
Sea of people flooded the streets and fields
Autumn Revolution Success
Autumn is here, oh red and yellow flags.
The Party flag still blends with the National flag, the Party leads our army and people to continue nine years of long-term resistance, all-people and all-round.
"Nine years of mountain sun and thousand rain
Through sunshine and rain, we have the Party, through poverty and hardship we have each other.
Remember the times when the enemy was deep in the trenches
Remember the nights following this path
Enemy search, enemy sweep, enemy surround
With the people and the Party, this night is still fun
The resistance village never retreated a step.
Remove all the outposts to make our country peaceful.
Nine years of Dien Bien Phu
"Should be a red wreath, should be a golden history".
The Party flag and the National flag continued to stand side by side for more than twenty years of the long march against the invading American imperialists.
“Oh, this afternoon, the sun is so beautiful.
Uncle Ho! Total victory is ours!
We come, green with steel light
The city named after Him is splendid with flags and flowers.
That day of great victory was predicted by beloved Uncle Ho 6 years ago.
“For independence, for freedom
Fight to make the Americans leave, fight to make the puppets fall
Forward! Soldiers and compatriots!
North and South reunite, what spring is happier!”
From the glorious historical milestone of liberating the South and unifying the country, the whole country took the first steps in the transition period to socialism. It was a process of doing, listening, learning, finding the way, researching theories, summarizing theories, and leading the Vietnamese revolutionary boat through all storms and rapids.
When the People trust the Party, the Party has everything and can do everything. But when a large number of cadres and Party members, including high-ranking cadres, have faded ideals, degraded in political ideology, morality, lifestyle, "self-evolved", "self-transformed", the People will lose faith in the Party and the regime. Without self-training, unable to overcome the small, selfish, and mediocre "ego", the cadres and Party members "in a large number" mentioned above will find it difficult to escape from evils and negatives such as corruption, bribery, abuse of power, degeneration, depravity...
The 94th anniversary of the Party's founding, towards the 79th anniversary of the country's founding and major holidays in 2024 are occasions for each Party organization, mass organization, cadre and Party member to review the glorious and heroic traditions of the Party and the country, strictly implement the Platform, Statutes and resolutions and regulations of the Party; promote the study and follow of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle; compete in socio-economic development, strengthen national defense and security, promote Party building and the political system, enhance foreign affairs and international cooperation. In the new stage of the revolution, it is necessary to strengthen the leadership role, governing capacity, and leadership methods of the Party, build a truly clean and strong Party from the Central to the grassroots. The Party must constantly renew itself, self-rectify itself, and strongly strengthen the Party's fighting power. Build a strong, clean Party, exemplary in politics, ideology, organization and ethics; Prevent and repel the degradation of political ideology, morality, lifestyle, and manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the organization.
President Ho Chi Minh once advised cadres and party members: “In the sky, nothing is more precious than the people. In the world, nothing is stronger than the united force of the people.” He emphasized: “The Party is not an organization for officials to become rich. The Party must fulfill its mission of liberating the nation, making the Fatherland rich and strong, and the people happy. The Party must take care of big tasks such as transforming our country’s backward economy and culture into an advanced economy and culture, while always paying attention to small things such as tomato sauce, fish sauce, and salt, which are necessary for the people’s daily lives.”
What must be done to make “The People love the Party as they love their children”. Forever love, trust, and bond the Party with the People like fish and water, like soil and trees, like spring water and rivers, like spring raindrops and sprouts, like tree roots that are budding and budding.
