Plan to organize propaganda to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the birth of comrade Le Hong Phong

Delegation of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province offered incense to commemorate the late General Secretary Le Hong Phong. Photo: Thanh Duy

Accordingly, the purpose of the request is to honor and affirm the great contributions and contributions of comrade Le Hong Phong to the revolutionary cause of our Party and people, to the international communist and workers' movement.

Help cadres, party members and people understand clearly the life and revolutionary career of comrade Le Hong Phong - a staunch communist, one of the excellent students of President Ho Chi Minh, an outstanding leader of the Party; contribute to educating today's and future generations to follow the steadfast revolutionary will, indomitable spirit and pure morality of comrade Le Hong Phong.

The propaganda activities to celebrate the 120th anniversary of Comrade Le Hong Phong's birthday were solemn, practical, and effective, ensuring the work of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 pandemic in the whole province; encouraging patriotic emulation movements in the entire Party, people, and army to overcome difficulties and challenges, successfully implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the Resolution of the Party Congresses at all levels, term 2020 - 2025.

The propaganda content focuses on reflecting the life, career and great contributions of comrade Le Hong Phong to the revolutionary cause of our Party and people, to the international communist and workers' movement; The shining example of revolutionary morality of comrade Le Hong Phong - a communist soldier who sacrificed his whole life for the independence and freedom of the Fatherland, the happiness of the people, was loyal to the Party, devoted to the people, steadfastly loyal to comrades and friends, always optimistic and confident in the victory of the revolution.

Propaganda on patriotic emulation movements to celebrate the 120th anniversary of Comrade Le Hong Phong's birth in localities and bases, associated with the results of implementing the tasks of economic, social, defense and security development of the province in 2022.

Former General Secretary Le Hong Phong (1902 - 1942). Photo archive

Commemorative activities include:

Organize a provincial-level incense offering and commemoration ceremony scheduled for September 6, 2022; Organize a delegation of provincial leaders and a number of departments, branches and sectors to offer incense and flowers at Hang Duong cemetery, Con Dao, Ba Ria - Vung Tau province and give gifts to relatives of comrade Le Hong Phong (expected in early September 2022).

Renovating and restoring the memorial area and memorial house of comrade Le Hong Phong in Hung Thong commune, Hung Nguyen district.

Coordinated with Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Central Propaganda Department to organize scientific conference in Nghe An province.

Coordinate with the Central Documentary and Scientific Film Studio to produce a documentary about the life and career of comrade Le Hong Phong.

Organize propaganda activities to cadres, party members and people of all walks of life, especially the young generation in the whole province about the life and revolutionary career of comrade Le Hong Phong through many diverse and rich forms such as: billboards, posters, propaganda on mass media, electronic information pages, social networks, propaganda publications (books, documents, ...), thematic talks, through activities of political and social organizations; organize broadcasting and rebroadcasting of documentaries about the life and revolutionary activities of comrade Le Hong Phong on NTV.

Organize traditional talks, research competitions, mobile exhibitions with images, documents... on the topic of the life and revolutionary career of comrade Le Hong Phong on the occasion of the anniversary.

To properly implement the plan's requirements, the Provincial Party Standing Committee also assigned specific tasks to relevant departments, branches, units and localities.

Comrade Le Hong Phong, real name Le Huy Doan, was born in 1902 in Thong Lang commune (now Hung Thong commune), Hung Nguyen district, Nghe An province. At the end of 1923, comrade Le Hong Phong and his close friend, comrade Pham Hong Thai, secretly went to Siam (Thailand) to meet Vietnamese patriots. In 1924, Le Hong Phong went to Guangzhou (China) to join the Tam Tam Xa group and then met leader Nguyen Ai Quoc, who enlightened him about the Marxist-Leninist revolution. From then on, comrade Le Hong Phong was determined to follow the path of national salvation of leader Nguyen Ai Quoc.

After the Nghe-Tinh Soviet movement (1930-1931), due to the savage and brutal terror of the French colonialists, the Vietnamese revolution encountered numerous difficulties and suffered heavy losses. In that situation, in November 1931, following the directive of the Communist International, comrade Le Hong Phong returned to the country to lead the restoration and development of the party organization, leading the Indochina revolution through a difficult and dangerous period.

In March 1934, comrade Le Hong Phong and a number of comrades held a conference to establish the Party's leadership committee abroad (at that time called the Party's Overseas Command Committee). The Overseas Command Committee functioned as a provisional Central Executive Committee with comrade Le Hong Phong as Secretary and comrade Ha Huy Tap as member in charge of propaganda work. The Overseas Command Committee prepared and decided to convene the Party's first Congress in Macau (China) from March 27 to 31, 1935. The Congress passed the Political Resolution, the Party Charter, a number of other important documents and elected a Central Executive Committee of 13 members headed by comrade Le Hong Phong.

At the end of 1934, comrade Le Hong Phong led the Party delegation to attend the 7th Congress of the Communist International held in Moscow (Soviet Union) from July 25 to August 25, 1935. He presented an important report on the struggle of the peoples in Indochina and was highly appreciated by the Congress. The Congress passed a resolution recognizing the Indochinese Communist Party as an independent branch of the Communist International and elected comrade Le Hong Phong as a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International.

In July 1936, in Shanghai (China), he convened and chaired the Central Conference to supplement the Resolution of the First Congress, directed the change in the Party's organizational and strategic direction, and advocated the establishment of a broad People's Anti-Imperialist United Front, including various forms of struggle and activities from secret, illegal to public, semi-public, legal, semi-legal, with the aim of "preparing conditions for the national liberation movement to develop", preparing in all aspects to bring the revolutionary movement to its climax from 1936 to 1939.

In November 1937, comrade Le Hong Phong secretly returned to Saigon, and together with the Central Committee actively directed the implementation of the Party's new strategic policy. On June 22, 1939, comrade Le Hong Phong was arrested for the first time by the French colonialists in Cho Lon and sentenced to 6 months in prison. On December 23, 1939, they brought him back to his hometown in Nghe An under house arrest. On January 20, 1940, he was arrested for the second time by the French colonialists and imprisoned in Lon prison, Saigon; at the end of 1940, they exiled him to Con Dao. Here, he breathed his last at noon on September 6, 1942.

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