Improve the effectiveness of mass mobilization work, contributing to maximizing the people's strength in developing all aspects of the country's socio-economic life.
Over the past years, with the attention and leadership of the Party, mass mobilization work has had many good and creative ways of doing things, bringing about practical results; thereby, consolidating people's trust in the Party's leadership and contributing to the development of all aspects of the country's socio-economic life. In the coming time, our Party is determined to continue to effectively carry out mass mobilization work, contributing to maximizing the people's strength in the cause of building and defending the Fatherland in the new period.
On the power of the people in developing all aspects of the country's economic and social life
Marxism-Leninism always emphasizes the role of the masses, considering the strength of the people as invincible; to lead the revolution, one must have close ties with the people, and to win the revolution, one must have the support of the majority of the people. VI Lenin affirmed: “For the Communist Party, which is still weak in numbers, as the vanguard of the working class leading a vast country, carrying out (at this time without direct support from more advanced countries) the transition to socialism, one of the greatest and most frightening dangers is to cut off ties with the masses.”(1).
In the process of leading and directing the revolution, the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Ho Chi Minh have always been deeply aware of the great role of the people, and have constantly cared for building and consolidating the close relationship between the Party and the people. This is a very special relationship, formed due to the objective requirements of our country's revolutionary cause. The Party is both the leader, the ruler, and the servant of the people, while the people voluntarily follow the Party, accept the Party's leadership, trust and are loyal to the Party and the Fatherland. The strength of the Party lies in the close connection between the Party and the people, as President Ho Chi Minh pointed out: "The work of innovation and construction isresponsibility of the people./The cause of resistance and nation building ispeople's work./Government from commune to central governmentelected by the people./Organizations from central to communal levelorganized by the people./In short, power and forceare all in the people"(2); He said: "The country takes the people as its root"(3), "Our country is a democratic country, the highest position belongs to the people, because the people are the masters"(4), "Our regime is a democratic regime, meaning the people are the masters"(5). Thus, the people must be masters and have the right to be masters; because if the people are not masters, democracy is just a formality. Promoting the thousands of years of tradition of building and defending the country of our ancestors, absorbing the theory of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought, our Party puts forward a very correct viewpoint, revolution is the cause of the people, by the people and for the people.
The 13th National Party Congress documents especially emphasize promoting the role of the people and relying on the people to build the Party. From the practice of the renovation process, the Party draws 5 lessons, especially the lesson: “In all work of the Party and State, it is necessary to thoroughly grasp and seriously implement the viewpoint that “the people are the root”; truly trust, respect and promote the people's right to mastery, persistently implement the motto “people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect, people supervise, people benefit”. The people are the center, the subject of the renovation, construction and protection of the Fatherland; all guidelines and policies must truly originate from the requirements, aspirations, rights and legitimate and just interests of the people; strengthen close relations with the people, rely on the people to build the Party; take the happiness and prosperity of the people as the goal to strive for; consolidate and strengthen the people's trust in the Party, the State and the socialist regime”(6). In the 5 guiding viewpoints, the 13th National Party Congress emphasized the viewpoint: "Strongly arouse the spirit of patriotism, the will of national self-reliance, the strength of great national unity and the aspiration to develop a prosperous and happy country; promote socialist democracy, the combined strength of the entire political system and of Vietnamese culture and people, foster people's strength, improve the quality of human resources, have breakthrough mechanisms to attract and promote talents, strongly apply science and technology, especially the achievements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, promote innovation, create new momentum for the country's rapid and sustainable development"(7)And in the 6 key tasks of the 13th Party Congress, there are 3 tasks that mention promoting the role of the people: "Strengthening the people's trust and attachment to the Party, State, and socialist regime"(8), “Arousing the aspiration to develop a prosperous and happy country”, “Completing a synchronous system of laws, mechanisms and policies to strongly promote socialist democracy and the people's right to mastery”(9).
In nearly 40 years of carrying out the renovation cause, the Party has promoted the strength of all classes of people in socio-economic development, achieving many great achievements of historical significance in the cause of building and defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland. The 13th National Party Congress clearly assessed these achievements: “The scale and level of the economy have been raised. The people's material and spiritual lives have been significantly improved.Our country has never had the foundation, potential, position and international prestige as it does today.”(10).
Results, limitations of mass mobilization work in recent times
About the results belong to mass mobilization work
Assessing the overall advantages of mass mobilization work in recent times, the 13th National Party Congress affirmed: “Mass mobilization work has been focused on and continued to be innovated; the viewpoint that “people are the root” and the subject of the innovation process has been increasingly deeply and fully recognized and implemented; the close relationship between the Party and the people has been consolidated and strengthened. The awareness and responsibility of Party committees, Party organizations and the political system have been enhanced; importance has been attached to listening, grasping the situation and resolving the legitimate and just aspirations and recommendations, and pressing issues of the people; contributing to strengthening the close relationship between the Party and the people and promoting the role of the people in Party building”(11).
In fact, the content and methods of the Party's leadership and the State's management of mass mobilization work have been innovated. The Party has promptly issued many resolutions on mass mobilization work, such as Resolution of the 8th Central Conference, Session VI (March 1990), "On innovating the Party's mass mobilization work, strengthening the relationship between the Party and the people"; Resolution of the 7th Central Conference, Session XI (June 2013), "Strengthening and innovating the Party's leadership over mass mobilization work in the new situation" to lead and gather people of all walks of life; at the same time, the Party has many policies and guidelines for economic development, ensuring social security, eliminating hunger and reducing poverty, improving material and spiritual life, and promoting people's mastery.
Implementing Party documents, along with the Grassroots Democracy Regulations, along with the promulgation of relevant legal documents, the mass mobilization work of state agencies has achieved many positive results; the reception of citizens and dialogue with the people by Party leaders has been carried out in a disciplined manner, the exemplary spirit of cadres and Party members has been raised. The Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations have continued to innovate the content and methods of grassroots-oriented activities, strengthened supervision and social criticism, and contributed ideas to build an increasingly clean and strong Party and government. Forms of mobilizing and gathering union members and association members have become increasingly rich, diverse and effective. Many patriotic emulation movements, especially the "Skillful Mass Mobilization" movement, have been promoted, associated with studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle, making important contributions to socio-economic development, ensuring national defense, security, foreign affairs, improving material and spiritual life, and effectively resolving the legitimate aspirations and legitimate interests of the people.
On limitations and causes
In recent times, mass mobilization work has had positive changes, but there are still some limitations that need to be identified and continued to be overcome. The institutionalization of the Party's policies and viewpoints on mass mobilization work, such as the motto "people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect, people supervise, people benefit" is not yet suitable for each group of people and each type of organization at the grassroots level. Some Party committees, organizations, and authorities have not attached importance to mass mobilization work and have not focused on making the legitimate aspirations and legitimate interests of the people the main content in their leadership and direction. The implementation of the Law on Grassroots Democracy in various types of enterprises is still a formality in some places. The work of assessing and forecasting the situation, grasping the thoughts of the people in some places is still inaccurate and untimely; there are still "hot spots" or complicated and prolonged complaints. The work of propagating and guiding people to implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws has not received due attention; there has been no focus on leadership and direction to promote the role of media agencies, social networks, and expand channels of direct dialogue with the people. The selection of content and methods of mobilizing and gathering union members in some places lacks creativity and is not close to reality, so the effectiveness is not high. The work of propagating typical examples of organizations and individuals who are good at production and business and have become rich legitimately has not received due attention at times. The implementation of the preliminary and final reviews according to the regulations of the Central Committee has been slow or done perfunctorily in some places.
The limitations in mass mobilization work have both objective and subjective causes, specifically: 1- Some Party committees and authorities have not fully and clearly recognized the position and role of mass mobilization work in the new situation; 2- The leadership capacity and fighting strength of some Party organizations, especially at the grassroots level, are still limited; 3- A number of cadres and Party members lack exemplary role, their pioneering and core roles are still vague, and in some cases, they have degraded in political ideology, ethics, and lifestyle, reducing people's trust in Party committees and authorities; 4- The organization and implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, especially on socio-economic development to improve people's material and spiritual life, is still slow and ineffective. The quality of cadres doing mass mobilization work and socio-political organizations has not met the requirements of the new situation.
Some tasks and solutions to improve the effectiveness of mass mobilization work to continue to maximize the people's strength in the new period
Firstly, Party committees at all levels continue to lead and create strong changes in awareness and actions on mass mobilization work of the entire political system and all classes of people.
Continue to thoroughly grasp the Central Committee's resolutions, directives, decisions and regulations on mass mobilization work to Party organizations and Party members; innovate mass mobilization work in a practical and creative direction, taking work results, satisfaction and trust of the people as important criteria to evaluate the quality of the apparatus and the quality of the contingent of cadres and Party members; at the same time, promote the role of the people in participating in building a clean and strong Party and State, creating consensus, consolidating the people's trust in the Party and State and promoting the great strength of the great national unity bloc in the cause of building and defending the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam.
Second, the Party continues to focus on leading and implementing mass mobilization work well.
State agencies need to have effective methods, ways and forms of implementation to promote the role of people participating in the process of formulating State policies and laws, ensuring harmony of legitimate interests and aspirations between the State, enterprises and people, linked to national interests. Gradually strengthen the form of direct democracy to promote collective intelligence and important and valuable contributions of opinions from all walks of life; promptly complete and concretize the mechanism of "Party leadership, State management, people as masters" and the motto "people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect, people supervise, people benefit". Continue to effectively implement voter contacts, monitoring activities, social criticism, public reception, dialogue with citizens, timely and lawful settlement of citizens' petitions, complaints and denunciations. Complete and implement regulations on public service ethics in combination with strengthening inspection and examination work; Pay attention to training and fostering skills in mass mobilization work for cadres, civil servants and public employees at state agencies at all levels.
Promote the exemplary role of cadres and party members, especially cadres who regularly contact and work with the people, strategic-level cadres, heads of sectors, levels, units, cadres and soldiers of the armed forces, resolutely criticize and strongly fight against manifestations of indifference, apathy, bureaucracy, arrogance, authoritarianism, and harassment of the people; at the same time, fight against tendencies to demagogue and incite the people. Continue to propagate and organize the good implementation of the Law on Democracy at the Grassroots Level, regularly listen to the legitimate thoughts and aspirations of the people to have timely solutions. Focus on thoroughly handling "hot" and urgent issues directly related to people's lives, not allowing complicated complaints to drag on, "hot spots" of security and order to occur in agencies, units and establishments.
Third, continue to innovate the organization, content and methods of operation of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations.
To perform well the role of representative, protect the legitimate rights and aspirations of members, union members, and association members, accordingly, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations build and consolidate the organization, apparatus, and cadres at all levels to be truly strong, meeting the requirements of theoretical level, practical capacity and skills in mass mobilization work. Pay attention to the selection, training, fostering and have mechanisms and policies to motivate cadres to do mass mobilization work, fronts, and associations to work with peace of mind; resolutely not assign cadres who are not exemplary, have poor ethics, or violate discipline to do mass mobilization work. The Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations continue to innovate the content and methods of operation in a focused, key direction, strongly oriented towards the grassroots; diversify the forms of gathering and mobilizing union members and association members; act as advisors to Party committees, and be the core in grasping public opinion and the people's situation; Promote democracy and citizens' sense of responsibility in supervising the building of a clean and strong Party and State. Strictly and consistently implement the principles of voluntariness, self-management, and self-insurance of operating expenses according to the law when developing mass organizations. Improve the quality of activities of mass organizations, regularly train outstanding union members and members, exemplary in both virtue and talent, to introduce sources of cadres to the Party and State; at the same time, pay attention to building and promoting the role of prestigious people in the community, including our compatriots abroad, towards building the country.
Fourth, step up Party building and rectification work, anti-corruption work, and resolutely and persistently fight against erroneous viewpoints and arguments.
The 13th National Party Congress clearly defined the direction of Party building and rectification work: “Improving the leadership capacity and fighting strength of grassroots Party organizations and the quality of Party members; promoting the vanguard, exemplary, respecting, being close to the people, trusting the people, understanding the people, and learning from the people of cadres and Party members. Further strengthening the close relationship between the Party and the people, consolidating and constantly enhancing the people's trust in the Party.”(12)The Congress set forth the requirement: "In the coming years, we must pay special attention to and further promote the comprehensive Party building and rectification in terms of politics, ideology, ethics, organization and cadres."(13). Strictly implement the principles of democratic centralism, self-criticism and criticism in Party activities, prevent and push back the degradation of political ideology, ethics and lifestyle; at the same time, continue to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of Party inspection, supervision and discipline work. Resolutely and persistently fight against corruption, waste and negativity; closely combine active prevention with proactive detection, strict and timely handling of acts of corruption, cover-up, tolerance and abetting of corruption; intervene and obstruct the prevention and fight against corruption, waste and negativity. The results of the prevention and fight against corruption, waste and negativity in the recent past have been approved and supported by the people; thereby, enhancing trust, arousing and promoting the people's strength to develop the country's socio-economy. In the face of the new situation and conditions, hostile forces have carried out many extremely sophisticated and malicious sabotage activities, aiming to divide the close relationship between the Party and the people, to sabotage the Party's guidelines and policies, and the State's policies and laws; therefore, it is necessary to strengthen propaganda work, to explain to the people so that they can clearly and correctly understand the Party's and State's guidelines and policies, to promote the "people's hearts and minds position", to be determined and resolute in fighting and refuting the false and distorted arguments of hostile forces in the new situation.
Fifth, continue to promote patriotic emulation movements, contributing to promoting people's strength in the country's socio-economic development in the new period.
In the coming time, the Party's mass mobilization work must continue to actively contribute to mobilizing and gathering all classes of people in the entire political system into a great force to participate in patriotic emulation movements, in the spirit of "emulation is patriotism, patriotism requires emulation". Party committees, authorities, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations closely follow political tasks, fully grasp the legitimate interests and aspirations of all classes of people to determine the content and choose ways to launch emulation movements that are close to the reality of each agency, unit, locality and suitable for each subject. On the basis of summarizing the emulation movement "Skilled mass mobilization" and emulation movements launched by the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in the past to draw experience, thereby carrying out political tasks better and more effectively in the coming time. Emulation movements need to be practical, avoiding formalities, waste and expense; Take political, economic and social effectiveness as a measure to evaluate each emulation movement; regularly organize monitoring, urging, inspection, preliminary and final reviews and timely rewards. In the new development stage, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations need to direct the emulation movement towards encouraging organizations, enterprises, union members and members to compete in production and business to enrich themselves legitimately. On that basis, create more jobs, increase budget revenue for the State, contribute to realizing the goal of "rich people, strong country, democracy, fairness, civilization", increasingly better implement social security policies, maximize the strength of the people in developing all aspects of the country's economic and social life in the new situation.
Sixth, the entire political system coordinates closely and synchronously in implementing the regulations on mass mobilization work.
On July 30, 2021, the Politburo issued Decision No. 23-QD/TW, "On promulgating the Regulations on mass mobilization work of the political system" to meet the requirements and tasks of mass mobilization work in the new situation. The Regulations clearly state the responsibilities for leadership and implementation of mass mobilization work of the Politburo, the Secretariat, the Central Mass Mobilization Commission, the Central Party Office, the Central Party Committees, the Central Party Delegations, the Central Party Executive Committees, the Central Secretariat of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the provincial Party Committees, the municipal Party Committees, the Central Party Committees, the responsibilities of the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Government, the ministries, branches, the judicial agencies, the responsibilities of the armed forces, the responsibilities of the authorities at all levels, the responsibilities of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations. Based on the responsibility for mass mobilization work assigned by the Politburo, organizations in the political system must study, thoroughly grasp and organize the implementation so that mass mobilization work can have positive and clear changes. It is necessary to build a coordination mechanism between the government and organizations with the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations at each level. Party committees at all levels need to regularly urge, inspect and supervise the implementation of the regulations; at the same time, periodically organize preliminary and final reviews and timely commendations according to the regulations of the Central Committee./.
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(1) VI Lenin:Full set,National Political Publishing House, Hanoi, 2006, vol. 44, p. 426
(2) Ho Chi Minh:Full set,National Political Publishing House Truth, Hanoi, 2011, vol. 6, p. 232
(3) Ho Chi Minh:Complete works, ibid.Vol. 5, p. 501
(4) Ho Chi Minh:Complete works, ibid.Vol. 7, p. 434
(5) Ho Chi Minh:Complete works, ibid.Vol. 9, p. 382
(6), (7), (8), (9), (10)Documents of the 13th National Congress of Delegates,National Political Publishing House Truth, Hanoi, 2021, vol. I, pp. 96 - 97, 110, 200, 202, 103 - 104
(11) Documents of the 13th National Congress of Delegates, ibid.vol. II, pp. 201 - 202
(12) Documents of the 13th National Congress of Delegates, ibid.vol. II, pp. 229 - 230
(13) Documents of the 13th National Congress of Delegates, ibid.t. I, p. 180
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