General Secretary Nguyen Van Cu
General Secretary of the Party from March 1938 to January 1940.
SUMMARY OF WORK EXPERIENCE
- He joined the revolution while still a student at Buoi High School (Hanoi). After being expelled from school, he returned to his hometown to open a school, maintaining close contact with Comrade Ngo Gia Tu and organizing the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association to carry out revolutionary activities.
- 1928: In implementing proletarianization, he went to the Vang Danh mine to work as a coal miner, both to train himself and to enlighten the workers.
- June 1929: Joined the Indochinese Communist Party
- After February 3, 1930: Secretary of the Special Zone Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Hon Gai-Uong Bi
- December 1931: Arrested by the French colonial authorities
- December 1931 - September 1936: Imprisoned in Hon Gai, Hoa Lo, and Con Dao prisons.
- After 1936: Participated in activities to restore the Northern Regional Party Committee.
- September 1937: At the Central Executive Committee meeting of the Party (from September 3 to 5, 1937), he was elected to the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Party.
- March 1938: At the Central Committee meeting held in Tan Thoi Nhat, Hoc Mon (Gia Dinh), he was elected General Secretary of the Indochinese Communist Party.
- June 1939: Wrote the famous work "Self-Criticism" to engage in critical struggle within the Party.
- November 1939: He was one of the conveners and chaired the Central Committee meeting at Ba Diem (Gia Dinh), which decided on the strategic shift and the establishment of the Indochinese Anti-Imperialist National United Front.
- January 18, 1940: Captured by the enemy in Saigon
- November 23, 1940: The Southern Uprising broke out. The French colonialists accused him of drafting the "Resolution to Establish the Indochinese Anti-Imperialist National United Front," advocating "violent resistance," and bearing moral responsibility for the Southern Uprising. The French colonialists sentenced him to death.
- August 28, 1941: Executed by the French colonial authorities at Ba Diem, Hoc Mon, Gia Dinh, along with several other comrades.
