He wrote thousands of articles under hundreds of different pen names, in Vietnamese, French, Russian, Chinese, English, etc. His journalistic legacy still retains its theoretical and practical value for the development of Vietnam's revolutionary press in the present period.
Founder and leader of Vietnam's revolutionary journalism
For nearly a century, the Vietnamese revolutionary press has played the role of a sharp weapon, a powerful "army" in ideological and cultural work, accompanying the cause of protecting and building the Fatherland. Based on the Party's guidelines, the press provides society and the people with political information orientations, making those guidelines permeate and enter into practical life.
As the founder of the Communist Party of Vietnam , President Ho Chi Minh once affirmed: “Our Party is strong because our Party has unified ideology and unified actions, from top to bottom. The Party's newspaper has the task of making ideology and action clear and unified.”
The history of Vietnam's revolutionary press has proven the role of the press as an ideological and theoretical weapon, as the Party's mouthpiece, strongly fighting against opposing ideological trends of colonialism, imperialism and reactionary lackeys to protect the Party. Through polemics, the communists won the battle against reformist nationalism, Trotskyism; leftist and rightist mistakes within the Party and in revolutionary mass organizations...
The press is an ideological weapon, revolutionary theory, an effective tool to propagate Marxism-Leninism, the Party's revolutionary line in the revolutionary stages, thereby actively contributing to building a worldview, scientific methodology, consolidating a solid foundation and ideology for cadres, party members and the masses.
In addition, revolutionary press is also a weapon of propaganda, agitation, organization, contributing to educating patriotism and political awareness of the masses. President Ho Chi Minh soon realized: "In today's era, without a political newspaper, there can be no movement called politics", "first of all, we need a newspaper, without it, we cannot systematically conduct a very principled and comprehensive propaganda and agitation". On the journey to fight for the independence and freedom of the Fatherland, leader Nguyen Ai Quoc worked hard to research, explore, learn to directly write articles, publish in newspapers, and produce press publications condemning the barbaric crimes of colonialism and imperialism against the colonial people.
On June 21, 1925, after returning to Guangzhou (China), Ho Chi Minh founded Thanh Nien newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association (one of the predecessor organizations of the Communist Party of Vietnam). He was the direct leader, chief editor and key writer of the newspaper. The newspaper made important contributions to propagating patriotism, arousing the will and aspiration for national independence and freedom, spreading Marxism-Leninism in Vietnam, awakening the people, showing the direction for the people to rise up in revolutionary struggle and preparing the ideological, political, organizational and personnel premises for the birth of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
According to Ho Chi Minh, the press is a weapon of revolutionary struggle, therefore, the press must have a fighting spirit, an orientational spirit and a mass character to propagate, agitate, train, educate and organize the masses to act for the common interests of the revolution. The press must "explain to the people clearly", "explain the Government's policies", "express the people's aspirations to the Government", "promote and train the people", "organize their forces", "call on the whole people to unite, enthusiastically resist, and believe in victory". Journalists are soldiers on the ideological and cultural front: "The pen is a sharp weapon, the article is a revolutionary proclamation to mobilize the masses to unite and fight against old and new colonialism, against imperialism, headed by American imperialism, for national independence, social progress and world peace"; "Your pen is also a sharp weapon in the cause of supporting the righteous and eliminating evil"...
Applying Ho Chi Minh's thought, promoting the role of revolutionary journalism in the current period
In the current renovation process, the Vietnamese revolutionary press has strongly promoted a particularly important role: Being the voice of the Party, the State, of political-social and professional organizations; being a trusted forum for 100 million Vietnamese people and more than 5.3 million Vietnamese people abroad.
The press has effectively disseminated the tasks and solutions for socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security, and proactively and actively integrating into the international community. The press has penetrated deeply into real life, promptly reflecting the legitimate thoughts and aspirations of the people; fighting against negative phenomena such as corruption, waste, bureaucracy, abuse of power, and harassment of the people. The press is also a sharp weapon in the fight against the distorted arguments of hostile and reactionary forces to protect the revolutionary cause of the Party in the new situation.
In the context of the fourth industrial revolution posing many new issues for the Vietnamese revolutionary press, when a series of new media and social media with many sources of information are created and spread at an extremely fast speed, the Vietnamese revolutionary press must follow Uncle Ho's advice, firmly maintain the political viewpoint of the Party and State, closely follow the rapid, complex, and unpredictable developments of the international and domestic situation to reflect fully, accurately, and most beneficially for the revolutionary cause of the nation.
The 4th Central Conference of the 12th tenure emphasized: Promoting the role and raising the responsibility of press agencies and press management agencies in the fight against degradation, bureaucracy, corruption, waste, negativity, "self-evolution", "self-transformation". Proactively orienting and providing information regularly or suddenly; focusing on propagating the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, achievements in the cause of building and defending the Fatherland, positive factors, typical advanced models, good people and good deeds with the motto "using beauty to eliminate ugliness", "using positivity to repel negativity"...
The conference also set out the task of continuing to innovate the leadership and management methods of the Party and the State towards the press in accordance with new requirements, orienting the press to develop healthily, becoming a vanguard force in protecting the Party's ideological foundation and fighting against the distorted and erroneous arguments of hostile forces. Implementing well the Party's Resolution XIII: Strengthening the management and development of all types of information communication on the internet. Resolutely fighting to eliminate toxic, distorted, reactionary products and information that negatively affect the political and social stability and the fine traditions and customs of the Vietnamese people.
In that context, the team of journalists today must be deeply imbued with President Ho Chi Minh's views on the role of revolutionary journalism; always uphold the fighting spirit; maintain "clear eyes, pure hearts, sharp pens"; deeply perceive their mission and responsibility in the cause of "supporting the righteous, eliminating evil" to produce works worthy of the heroic nation and glorious era, serving the revolutionary cause of the Party, building a prosperous and powerful country as the earnest wish of beloved Uncle Ho.
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