Hue Newspaper today, marking an important milestone of Thua Thien Hue's revolutionary journalism. Photo: Ngoc Hoa |
In that context, in early April 1930, at the liaison office in Ben Ngu, representatives of the Indochinese Communist Party and the Indochinese Communist Federation in Hue held a conference to unify the establishment of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Thua Thien province. The conference elected an Executive Committee of 5 comrades and appointed comrade Le Viet Luong as Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee.
From local practice, implementing the Central Committee's policy on "propagating communism and encouraging the masses to follow the Party", the Thua Thien Provincial Party Committee proposed the immediate direction of work to propagate by word of mouth, actively explaining to the people about the birth of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Thua Thien Party Committee, calling on the people to actively join mass organizations, fight for their daily essential rights... At the same time, through books and newspapers, the Provincial Party Committee advocated exposing deceitful tricks, fighting to denounce the brutal crimes of French colonialism, calling on the masses to support the Nghe Tinh Soviet...
Faced with the new momentum of the revolution, in mid-June 1930, the Thua Thien Provincial Party Committee convened the Third Conference to discuss a number of urgent tasks and decide on important issues. After this conference, the Provincial Party Committee published the newspaper Con Duong Dau Tranh as a study material and revolutionary propaganda. Con Duong Dau Tranh was the first newspaper of the Provincial Party Committee, directly directed by comrade Le Viet Luong, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. According to documents stored at the Vietnam Revolutionary History Museum, this newspaper was lithographed on student paper, 20cm x 26cm in size, with 2 pages; depending on the content and situation, there were also some 3-page issues, some 4-page issues, but they were not published regularly.
In the newly established conditions, printing and paper work were still difficult and had to be kept secret, so the Struggle Road was not printed much and was only distributed to the bases of the Provincial Party Committee and the Thuan Hoa City Party Committee. Therefore, on the last page of the newspaper, the editors had the "initiative" to add the line: "After reading, pass it on to others. Do not burn it!". Some issues had the sentence: "For comrades to read only!". This was a unified model according to the policy of the Party Central Committee for small quantities of secretly published handwritten newspapers.
To implement the provincial Party Committee's policy to the grassroots, in July 1930, the Red Student Association of Thuan Hoa City Party Committee was established. The Association quickly went into operation, built a base, and organized for its members to read the Fighting Path Newspaper. Along with the newspapers of the Provincial Party Committee and the Regional Party Committee, under the direction of the Thuan Hoa City Party Committee, the Red Student Association published the handwritten newspaper Hoc Tro as its mouthpiece.
The Provincial Party Committee's Dau Tranh Newspaper focused on propaganda about the day against imperialist war; the Hoc Tro Newspaper called on Thuan Hoa students to fight and organized massive activities to celebrate August 1st. Although newly established and published in small quantities, Dau Tranh and Hoc Tro quickly reached the youth and student classes, contributing to encouraging the revolutionary spirit among the youth and supporting the Nghe Tinh Soviet movement.
Fearing the positive influence of the Fighting Path and the Student Newspaper, the French and Southern secret police sent their agents to search the editorial office, arresting the publishers and those who read the “communist newspaper” in Hue. To preserve the revolutionary bases, in early August 1930, the newly established Student Newspaper was forced to stop operating and go underground.
The Hoc Tro newspaper stopped being published, and instead, Party leaflets appeared in many places, calling on the masses to support the revolutionary movement in Nghe Tinh and to protest against the reactionary rulers closing schools in Nghe An ... The Thua Thien Provincial Party Committee organized additional printing facilities to print leaflets, and published the Nguoi Lao Kho newspaper and the Chi Dao newspaper of the Central Party Committee. Through these newspapers, the Provincial Party Committee propagated the Central's guiding ideology to the grassroots. A new wave of revolutionary activities with diverse forms such as: rallies, speeches, leaflet distribution, funeral services, fund-raising... took place vigorously in many districts in Thua Thien province.
The Nguoi Lao Kho newspaper of the Central Region Party Committee, issue 1, published in April 1930. Besides the main edition, Nguoi Lao Kho also published many supplementary issues with news about Struggles in the Central provinces, especially in the capital Hue.
Respecting the role, position and great effect of revolutionary press in accordance with the spirit of the Central Committee's resolution, the Central Region Party Committee Standing Committee regularly paid attention to and directed provincial Party committees to organize secret publishing, so that the press content was close to the level of readers and listeners. The Central Region Party Committee Standing Committee required revolutionary press to: "Based on the oppression that occurs daily before the eyes of the masses"... "The newspaper must be written concisely, easily understood and eloquently, touchingly like a speech, based on facts, not too literary".
Despite facing fierce and fierce challenges, death was always lurking, but under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, the provincial and district Party Committees still secretly printed and distributed newspapers and revolutionary propaganda documents. Thanks to that, the revolutionary press continuously developed and fulfilled its function. From the founding of the Party until mid-1940, in Hue there were 10 newspapers of the provincial Party Committee, such as Con Duong Dau Tranh, Hoc Tro, Nguoi Lao Kho, Viet Thuong, Anh Sang, Phu Nu Tan Tien, Song Huong Tuc Ban, Kinh te Tan Van, Nhanh Lua, Dan weekly newspaper and many other newspapers of the Central Region Party Committee published in Hue.
In the spring of At Ty 2025, we celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Thua Thien Hue province and also the 95th anniversary of the establishment of the Con Duong Dau Tranh Newspaper, the first mouthpiece of the provincial Party Committee, the predecessor of today's Hue Newspaper, marking an important milestone of the revolutionary press of Thua Thien Hue. Over the past 95 years, under the leadership of the Party Committee, the Thua Thien Hue press has continuously grown in both quality and quantity, contributing greatly to the struggle for national liberation, defending the Fatherland, building and developing the homeland and the country to become more and more beautiful.
Duong Phuoc Thu
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