General Secretary Nguyen Van Cu
General Secretary of the Party from March 1938 to January 1940.

SUMMARY OF WORK EXPERIENCE
- Participated in the revolution when he was a student at Buoi School (Hanoi). After being expelled from school, he returned to his hometown to open a school, kept in close contact with comrade Ngo Gia Tu and organized the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association to operate.
- 1928: Implementing proletarianization, he went to Vang Danh mine to work as a coal hoe to both train himself and 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
- 12/1931: Captured by French colonialists
- 12/1931 - 9/1936: Imprisoned in prisons: Hon Gai, Hoa Lo and Con Dao
- After 1936: Participated in activities to restore the Northern Regional Party Committee.
- September 1937: At the Central Party Executive Committee Conference (from September 3 to 5, 1937), he was elected to the Central Party Standing Committee.
- March 1938: At the Central Conference 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 fight criticism within the Party.
- November 1939: He was one of the people who convened and chaired the Central Conference held in Ba Diem (Gia Dinh), deciding to change the strategic direction and establish the Indochina National United Front against imperialism.
- January 18, 1940: Captured by the enemy in Saigon
- November 23, 1940: The Southern Uprising broke out, the French colonialists accused him of being the one who drafted the "Resolution to establish the Indochinese National United Front against Imperialism", "Advocating violence" and being the one who had spiritual responsibility in the Southern Uprising. The French colonialists sentenced him to death.
- August 28, 1941: Executed by French colonialists in Ba Diem, Hoc Mon, Gia Dinh with several other comrades.