Implementing great national unity in the new era according to Ho Chi Minh's thought
Great national unity is a consistent and continuous ideology of our Party and throughout the revolutionary life of President Ho Chi Minh. Following Uncle Ho's instructions, since its establishment, the Communist Party of Vietnam has always paid attention to leading and promoting the strength of great national unity, contributing to great achievements and bright milestones in the cause of fighting for independence, as well as the cause of innovation, construction and protection of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam today.
Nguyen The Trung• August 17, 2025
Great national unity is a consistent and continuous ideology of our Party and throughout the revolutionary life of President Ho Chi Minh. Following Uncle Ho's instructions, since its establishment, the Communist Party of Vietnam has always paid attention to leading and promoting the strength of great national unity, contributing to great achievements and bright milestones in the cause of fighting for independence, as well as the cause of innovation, construction and protection of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam today.
Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on great national unity
Our Party and beloved President Ho Chi Minh paid special attention to building the great national unity bloc. On February 1, 1942, in the article “We should learn our history”, President Ho Chi Minh advised: “Our history teaches us this lesson: When our people are united as one, our country is independent and free. On the contrary, when our people are not united, we are invaded by foreign countries.”(1).
InLetter calling for general uprising(August 1945), He wrote: "Only with unity can we have strength, only with strength can we gain independence and freedom."(2).
As the founder, leader and trainer of our Party, President Ho Chi Minh always emphasized the issue of solidarity combined with strict discipline within the Party. He emphasized that dialectical relationship: “Solidarity is the strength of the Party. Close solidarity and strict discipline are inseparable. Strict discipline ensures the unanimity of thought and unified action of the entire Party and the entire people.”(3).
In the closing speech of the 7th expanded Central Executive Committee Conference of the Vietnam Workers' Party on March 12, 1955, President Ho Chi Minh mentioned the close solidarity among leaders: "Today,Party unityis more important than ever, especially close solidarity among leading cadres”… “To have close solidarity within the Party, we must unify our thoughts, expand internal democracy, expand self-criticism and criticism”(4)With sharp reasoning and broad vision from his rich revolutionary activities, President Ho Chi Minh summarized the issue of solidarity into a philosophy, a scientific truth: "Unity, unity, great unity, success, success, great success”(5).
Before going far away, inTestamentPresident Ho Chi Minh left the entire Party and people with sacred instructions:Uniteis an extremely precious tradition of the Party and of our people. Comrades from the Central Committee to the Party cells must preserve the unity and consensus of the Party as they preserve the apple of their eye."(6).
Imbued with President Ho Chi Minh's ideology, our Party has put forth many policies and strategies to build and implement the great national unity bloc. Thanks to close unity, since its founding, our Party has led the people to defeat all invaders and achieved many important and historic achievements in politics, socio-economy, national defense, security and foreign affairs.
Some key solutions to continue implementing great national unity in the new period
The new era opens up many new opportunities and advantages, but there are also many difficulties and challenges. The Fourth Industrial Revolution continues to develop strongly and has a profound impact on all areas of social life. Some scientific and technological achievements, such as artificial intelligence (AI), robots, cloud computing, satellite Internet, blockchain, etc., have developed unprecedentedly. The trend of green transformation, digital transformation, and energy transformation is increasingly being promoted by many countries.
The revolution in streamlining the political system's organizational apparatus to be efficient, effective, and effective, developing science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation opens up many prospects for the country to successfully achieve the goals of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam... The leadership of the Party in the new context of the country and the world will have a profound impact on the cause of building the great national unity bloc. To continue to implement national unity in the new period, it is necessary to promote the implementation of the following tasks and solutions:
First, the Party Committee, organizationThe Party continues to effectively implement Resolution No. 43-NQ/TW, dated November 24, 2023, of the Conference.Central 8,XIII session "On continuing to promote the tradition and strength of great national unity, building our country to be increasingly prosperous and happy".
Through Resolution No. 43-NQ/TW, our Party put forward a scientific and dialectical viewpoint, in which it determined: Great national unity is a precious tradition, an important and consistent strategic line of the Party; a source of great strength, a decisive factor for the victory of the cause of building and defending the Fatherland.
At the same time, Resolution No. 43-NQ/TW clearly orients 7 main tasks and solutions for the entire Party and people to implement, specifically: 1- Raising awareness and responsibility of Party committees, Party organizations, political systems and people about the position and importance of promoting the tradition and strength of great national unity;
2- Perfecting policies and guidelines on national solidarity, arousing the will and aspiration to develop the country;
3- Building and rectifying a clean and strong Party; strengthening solidarity within the Party, maintaining the Party's core leadership role in building and promoting the tradition and strength of great national solidarity;
4- Enhance the role, effectiveness and efficiency of the State's operations in promoting the tradition and strength of great national unity;
5- Promoting socialist democracy and the creative potential of the People;
6- Innovate the content and methods of operation of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations; promote mass mobilization work, mobilize all resources for national development;
7- Organize practical and effective patriotic emulation campaigns and movements. To promptly put the resolution into practice, Party committees and organizations regularly inspect and urge implementation, periodically review and summarize according to regulations, promptly commend localities, agencies and units that do well and criticize places that do not implement or implement in a formal manner with low efficiency.
Second, select, arrange, and assign truly virtuous and talented cadres after streamlining the organizational apparatus in accordance with the spirit of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, dated October 25, 2017.,of the 12th Party Central Committee "Some issues on continuing to innovate and reorganize the apparatus of the political system to be streamlined, effective and efficient"”.
Up to now, cadre work has had a great impact on social consensus and internal solidarity. President Ho Chi Minh pointed out: "Cadres are the root of all work"(7); "The success or failure of a job depends on good or bad staff"(8).
In an interview with the press on the occasion of the Spring of At Ty 2025 with the theme "Convergence and aspiration, firmly entering the new era of development", General Secretary To Lam affirmed: "Regarding personnel work, this is an important task, the "key" of the "key", having decisive significance for the successful implementation of the Party's policies and guidelines to bring the country into a new era."(9).
In preparing personnel for the Party Congresses at all levels for the 2025-2030 term, the Central Committee and the Politburo have given very strict guidance, determined not to allow cadres who do not have strong political will, are not steadfast in the Party's viewpoints, have reduced prestige, cause disunity, show signs of political opportunism, ambition for power, localism, etc. to enter the Party Committee, leadership, and management levels in the political system.
Currently, the reorganization of some central, provincial, municipal, commune, ward and town departments, ministries and branches has been closely led and directed, ensuring a specific and urgent roadmap and steps. The team of leaders and managers in the units has been reorganized reasonably and operated synchronously. At the same time, the regime and policies for cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers affected by the reorganization of the apparatus have been well implemented.
However, due to many objective and subjective reasons, in some localities the review and assessment of the qualities, abilities and prestige of cadres is not strict, and the arrangement and assignment of some cadres is not suitable. This leads to the arrangement of heads and deputy heads in some localities and units not being really reasonable, causing some cadres to worry, affecting the solidarity and consensus among the team of leaders and managers.
In the new era, it is required that the staff agencies on personnel work must be extremely impartial and objective in evaluating cadres to submit to the competent Party Committee for decision. In reality, in any locality or unit, the team of leaders, managers, and leaders who direct socio-economic development and improve the material and spiritual life of the people will build a real and effective national solidarity bloc within the Party and in society.
Third, continue to firmly implement the principle of democratic centralism in organization and activities.Dyes
Since its founding, the Communist Party of Vietnam has consistently applied and creatively developed Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought, consistently pursued the goals of national independence and socialism, consistently promoted the renovation process, consistently implemented the Party's principles to firmly build and defend the Vietnamese Fatherland, and ensured the Party's comprehensive and unified leadership in all fields.
Democratic centralism is the basic principle in party organization and activities, stipulated in the Party Charter, which is a close combination of the two aspects of centralism and democracy in an organic, dialectical relationship. As President Ho Chi Minh affirmed: “Collective leadership isdemocracy./ The person in charge isconcentrate./ Collective leadership, individual in charge meansdemocratic centralism.”... “The collective leadership and the individual in charge must always go hand in hand”(10).
From the practical implementation of the principle of democratic centralism in Party building and rectification work through the congress terms and recent years of innovation, the 13th National Party Congress has drawn many lessons, emphasizing the lesson: "Firmly apply and creatively develop Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought, improve the leadership, governing and fighting capacity of the Party, regularly consolidate and strengthen solidarity within the Party and the political system, strictly implement the principle of Party building, and regularly innovate the Party's leadership methods."(11).
Without democracy through discussion and debate to choose the most feasible and best option, it is difficult to create unity, but without concentration, it is impossible to turn awareness into action to lead the resolution of political tasks in practice. Without concentration, the Party cannot become a fighting organization, an action organization. The principle of democratic centralism ensures that our Party is unified in politics, ideology, organization, will and action; it is the basis for building and consolidating the Party's solidarity, making the Party always a unified entity that is tightly organized, with strict discipline, overcoming the state of dispersion, localism, factionalism, and disorganization.
In the new period, the 13th National Party Congress clearly stated: “The guiding ideology of our entire Party, people and army is to firmly adhere to and creatively apply and develop Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh Thought, firmly adhere to the goal of national independence and socialism; firmly adhere to the Party's renewal policy, firmly adhere to the principles of Party building,... This is a matter of principle, of vital significance to our regime, is the solid foundation of our Party, and does not allow anyone to waver or waver.”(12).
Thanks to steadfastly pursuing principled innovation and effectively implementing the principle of democratic centralism, considering it the vital political principle of a genuine Party, our Party has led our people and our country from one victory to another, achieving many great and historically significant achievements.
Fourth, continue to practice democracy well within the Party and democracy in the whole society.
President Ho Chi Minh paid great attention to practicing democracy. He said: “Practicing democracy is the universal key that can solve all difficulties.”(13)At the same time, he advised: "Work must have democratic discussion, but pay attention to democracy must have organization and discipline"(14).
In the process of leading the revolution, our Party has put forward many correct policies on democracy: People are the root, focusing on and promoting the people's right to mastery; identifying democracy as both the goal and the driving force of national development, the nature of the socialist regime, implementing the motto "People know, people discuss, people do, people inspect, people supervise, people benefit".
From the 6th National Congress of the Party to the 13th National Congress of the Party, our Party has made new progress in practicing democracy in Party organization and activities. In Party congresses at all levels and in Party conferences, each Party member has the right to discuss, debate, participate in Party work, criticize and question other Party members, present all his/her opinions, reserve opinions or submit them to higher-level agencies until the National Congress of the Party, resolutions and decisions of the Party organization are discussed collectively and voted by majority, and elections within the Party from Party cells to Party committees directly under the Central Committee are all democratically elected according to the principle of secret ballot, without coercion or imposition.
The process of taking a vote of confidence and the candidacy and nomination are all included in the Party's regulations, ensuring the principle of democratic centralism. The promotion, reward and discipline of Party members are all discussed and decided by the collective, with the opinions and comments of relevant agencies.
In the run-up to the 14th National Party Congress, the Central Committee has sent draft documents to the Congress to solicit comments from Party organizations, Party members and the people. This is the Party's regular practice of gathering the wisdom of cadres, Party members and the people on important issues of the country.
The revolutionary practice of our country shows that only with broad democracy within the Party can democracy be implemented in the whole society. Promoting democracy is both a requirement to build a clean and strong Party and a legitimate aspiration of the majority of cadres and Party members.
Along with practicing democracy within the Party, our Party pays special attention to leading the practice of democracy throughout society. President Ho Chi Minh once advised: "The intelligence and initiative of the masses are endless."(15)"Only by promoting democracy to the highest degree can we mobilize all the people's forces to advance the revolution"(16).
Imbued with his ideology, our Party has led the State to institutionalize the Party's policies into legal documents to promote the people's mastery, such as promulgating the Law on Referendum, the Law on Complaints, the Law on Denunciation, the Law on Implementing Democracy at the Grassroots Level, etc.
One of the five breakthroughs in personnel work in Resolution No. 26-NQ/TW, dated May 19, 2018, of the 7th Central Conference, Session XII "On focusing on building a contingent of cadres at all levels, especially at the strategic level, with sufficient qualities, capacity and prestige, equal to the task" clearly states: Perfecting the mechanism for cadres and party members to truly be closely attached to the people and promoting the role of the people in participating in building the contingent of cadres. In recent years, the Politburo and the Secretariat have issued decisions and regulations on the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations to conduct social supervision, criticism, and contribute ideas to Party building.(17); supervise the cultivation and training of ethics and lifestyle of leaders, key officials and cadres and party members(18); regulate the responsibility of the head of the Party Committee in receiving people, having direct dialogue with people and handling people's feedback and recommendations(19); provide a framework for Party committees and Party organizations directly under the Central Committee to continue promoting the role of the people in the fight to prevent and repel degradation, "self-evolution", and "self-transformation" within the Party.(20).
In particular, the 13th Party Congress Document sets out the requirement: "Continue to concretize the motto "People know, people discuss, people do, people inspect, people supervise, people benefit", "research and promulgate mechanisms for people to participate in Party building, building a clean and strong political system, and building a contingent of cadres"(21)…
However, promoting democracy must go hand in hand with strengthening discipline and order in society, enhancing social consensus, raising the sense of civic responsibility, and strictly handling acts of taking advantage of democracy to sabotage the Party and State, and dividing the great national unity bloc.
Organize the synchronous and effective implementation of the above solutions, in which, pay great attention to selecting and arranging a team of truly virtuous and talented cadres who are trusted by the people, uphold the principle of democratic centralism in the organization and activities of the Party; at the same time, continue to practice democracy well in the Party and the whole society, our country will definitely have rapid and sustainable development in all fields in the new period, to successfully realize the goal of "Rich people, strong country, democracy, fairness, civilization"; well fulfill Uncle Ho's wish: Unity, great unity. Success, great success.
(1) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, National Political Publishing House Truth, Hanoi, 2011, vol. 3, p. 256
(2) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, op. cit., vol. 3, p. 595
(3) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, op. cit., vol. 9, p. 31
(4) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, op. cit., vol. 9, p. 368
(5) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, op. cit., vol. 13, p. 119
(6) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, op. cit., vol. 15, p. 622
(7) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, op. cit., vol. 5, p. 309
(8) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, op. cit., vol. 5, p. 313
(9) Hanh Nguyen: Converging will and aspiration, firmly entering a new era of development, Nhan Dan Electronic Newspaper, January 10, 2025.
(10) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, op. cit., vol. 5, p. 620.
(11]) Documents of the 13th National Congress of Delegates, National Political Publishing House Truth, Hanoi, 2021, vol. I, pp. 26 - 27
(12) Documents of the 13th National Congress of Delegates, op. cit., vol. I, p. 33
(13) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, op. cit., vol. 15, p. 325
(14) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, op. cit., vol. 10, p. 561
(15) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, op. cit., vol. 12, p. 183
(16) Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works, op. cit., vol. 12, p. 376
(17) Decision No. 217-QD/TW, dated December 12, 2013, of the Politburo “Issuing the Regulations on supervision and social criticism of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations” and Decision No. 218-QD/TW, dated December 12, 2013, of the Politburo “Issuing the Regulations on the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations and people participating in giving opinions on Party building and government building.
(18) Regulation No. 124-QD/TW, dated February 2, 2018, of the Secretariat "On supervision of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations and people on the cultivation and training of ethics and lifestyle of leaders, key officials and cadres and party members".
(19) Regulation No. 11-QDi/TW, dated February 18, 2019, of the Politburo "On the responsibility of heads of Party committees at all levels in receiving people, having direct dialogue with people and handling people's reflections and recommendations".
(20) Decision No. 99-QD/TW, dated October 3, 2017, of the Secretariat "Issuing the Framework Guidelines for Party committees and Party organizations directly under the Central Committee to continue promoting the role of the people in the fight to prevent and repel degradation, "self-evolution", and "self-transformation" within the Party".
(21) Documents of the 13th National Congress of Delegates, op. cit., vol. II, p. 249
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