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Constitution President Nguyễn Minh Triết Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng National Assembly Chairman: Nguyễn Phú Trọng Political parties Vietnamese Fatherland Front Communist Party of Vietnam Gen. Secrt: Nông Đức Mạnh Elections: Parl.: 2007 Pres.: 2007 Provinces Human rights Foreign relations Foreign aid

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The Communist Party of Vietnam (Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam) is the currently ruling, as well as the only legal political party in Vietnam. It is a Marxist-Leninist Communist Party supported by (and a part of) the Vietnamese Fatherland Front. The President of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Chủ tịch nÆ°á»›c Việt Nam) is the head of state of Vietnam, although the functions of the President are often ceremonial. ... Nguyá»…n Minh Triết (born October 8, 1942 in Bến Cát district, Bình DÆ°Æ¡ng province) is the President of Vietnam. ... The Prime Minister of Vietnam is the head of the executive branch of the Vietnamese government. ... Nguyá»…n Tấn DÅ©ng (born November 17, 1949 in Ca Mau province) is the prime minister of Vietnam. ... The constitution recognizes the National Assembly of Vietnam as “the highest organ of state power. ... Nguyá»…n Phú Trọng (born April 14, 1944 in Hanoi) is the National Assembly Chairman of Vietnam. ... Political parties in Vietnam lists political parties in Vietnam. ... The Vietnamese Fatherland Front (Vietnamese: Mặt Trận Tổ Quốc Việt Nam) is an umbrella group of pro-government mass movements in Vietnam, and has close links to the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese government. ... This article or section needs to be wikified. ... Elections in Vietnam gives information on election and election results in Vietnam. ... Parliamentary elections will be held in Vietnam in May 2007. ... Indirect presidential elections will be held in Vietnam in September 2007. ... Administrative Divisions of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam The country of Vietnam is divided into fifty-nine provinces (known in Vietnamese as tỉnh, from Chinese 省 shÄ›ng). ... In its 2004 report on Human Rights Practices, the U.S. Department of State characterized Vietnam’s human rights record as “poor” and cited the continuation of “serious abuses. ... During the Second Indochina War (1954-75), North Vietnam balanced relations with its two major allies, the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China. ... Foreign Aid to Vietnam The World Bank’s assistance program for Vietnam has three objectives: to support Vietnam’s transition to a market economy, to enhance equitable and sustainable development, and to promote good governance. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... // Political scientists have developed concepts of different ideal types of political parties in order to better compare them with each other. ... Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ... In modern usage, a communist party is a political party which promotes communism, the sociopolitical ideology based on Marxism. ... The Vietnamese Fatherland Front (Vietnamese: Mặt Trận Tổ Quốc Việt Nam) is an umbrella group of pro-government mass movements in Vietnam, and has close links to the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese government. ...

History

The Party was founded by Ho Chi Minh and other exiles living in China as the Communist Party of Vietnam (Đảng cộng sản Việt Nam) at a conference in Hong Kong February 1930. At the Hong Kong conference two competing communist factions, Indochinese Communist Party (Đông Dương cộng sản đảng) and the Communist Party of Annam (An Nam cộng sản Đảng), merged. Although the third Vietnamese communist group, the Indochinese Communist League (Đông Dương cộng sản liên đoàn), had not been invited to the Hong Kong conference its member were allowed to become members of the new united party. Hồ Chí Minh   (Chu nho: 胡志明, May 19, 1890 – September 2, 1969) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became Prime Minister (1946–1955) and President (1955–1969) of North Vietnam. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Communist Party of Annam (in Vietnamese language: An Nam cá»™ng sản Đảng) was a Vietnamese communist party. ...

The Hong Kong conference elected a nine-member Provisional Central Committee, consisting of 3 members from Tonkin, 2 from Annam, 2 from Nam Bo, and 2 from the overseas Chinese community.^[1] The latter group had previously been organized within the South Seas Communist Party. Tonkin, also spelled Tongkin or Tongking, is the northernmost part of Vietnam, south of Chinas Yunnan and Guangxi Provinces, east of northern Laos, and west of the Gulf of Tonkin. ... Annam refers to two different areas of what is now the country of Vietnam. ... South Seas Communist Party (also called Nanyang Communist Party) was a communist party in South-East Asia established in 1925 when the Communist Party of China separated its exile branches in the region to make way for local communist parties. ...

Soon thereafter, at its first plenum the party changed its name to the Communist Party of Indochina (Đảng cộng sản Đông Dương), on directions from Comintern.^[1] The Comintern (Russian: Коммунистический Интернационал, Kommunisticheskiy Internatsional – Communist International, also known as the Third International) was an international Communist organization founded in March 1919, in the midst of the war communism period (1918-1921), by Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik), which intended to fight by all available means, including...

The First National Party Congress was held in secret in Macau in 1935. At the same time, a Comintern congress in Moscow adopted a policy towards a popular front against fascism and directed Communist movements around the world to collaborate with anti-fascist forces regardless of their orientation towards socialism. This required the ICP to regard all nationalist parties in Indochina as potential allies. Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ... Popular Fronts comprise broad coalitions of political and other groups, often made up of oppositioners or left wingers, and often united against particularly stringent circumstances. ... Fascism is a political ideology and mass movement that seeks to place the nation, defined in exclusive biological, cultural, and/or historical terms, above all other sources of loyalty, and to create a mobilized national community. ... Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ... French Indochina was a federation of protectorates in Southeast Asia, part of the French colonial empire. ...

The party was formally dissolved in 1945 in order to hide its Communist affiliation and its activities were folded into the Marxism Research Association and the Viet Minh, which had been founded four years earlier as a common front for national liberation. The Party was refounded as the Vietnam Workers' Party (Đảng lao động Việt Nam) at the Second National Party Congress in Tuyen Quang in 1951. The Congress was held in territory in north Vietnam controlled by the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. The Third National Congress, held in Hanoi in 1960 formalized the tasks of constructing socialism in what was by then North Vietnam, or the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and committed the party to carrying out the revolution of liberation in the South. At the Fourth National Party Congress held in 1976 after the end of Vietnam War with the reunification of Vietnam, the Party's name was changed to the Communist Party of Vietnam. This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... The Viet Minh (abbreviated from Việt Nam ộc Lập ồng Minh Hội, League for the Independence of Vietnam) was formed by Ho Ngoc Lam and Nguyen Hai Than in 1941 to seek independence for Vietnam from France. ... In politics a common front is an alliance between different groups, forces or interests in pursuit of a common goal or in opposition to a common enemy. ... Tuyen Quang is a town in Vietnam, the capital of Tuyen Quang Province. ... Combatants French Colonialists Việt Minh Strength 500,000  ? Casualties 94,581 dead 78,127 wounded 40,000 captured 300,000+ dead 500,000+ wounded 100,000 captured The First Indochina War (also called the French Indochina War, the French War or the Franco-Vietnamese War) was fought in Indochina... Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Ná»™i)  , estimated population 3,058,000(2004), is the capital of Vietnam. ... The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN), or less commonly, Vietnamese Democratic Republic (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cá»™ng Hòa), also known as North Vietnam, was proclaimed by Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, September 2nd1945 and was recognized by the Peoples Republic of China and the... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...

Organization

The CPV is a Marxist-Leninist party run on democratic centralist lines. The supreme leading body is the Politburo (Political Bureau) headed by the General Secretary. The Politburo is elected by the Central Committee, and the Central Committee is elected by the National Congress. In 1976, as a result of the unification of North and South Vietnam, the Central Committee was expanded to 133 members from 77 and the Politburo grew from 11 to 17 members while the Secretariat increased from seven to nine members. Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ... Democratic centralism is a political concept referring to the governance of political parties and groups. ... Official language Vietnamese Capital Saigon Last President Duong Van Minh Last Prime Minister Vu Van Mau Area  - Total  - % water 173,809 km² N/A Population  - Total  - Density 19,370,000 (1973 est. ... Central Committee most commonly refers to the central executive unit of a communist party, whether ruling or non-ruling. ... Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ... Secretariat may refer to: A racehorse who won the Triple Crown in 1973, see Secretariat (horse) In a Communist Party, a Secretariat is a key body that controls the central administration of the party, and if it is a ruling party, the country. ...

Membership in the party doubled from 760,000 in 1966 to 1,553,500 in 1976, representing 3.1 percent of the total population of the country, and was close to two million by 1986.

The title President of the Central Committee, existing during 1951 - 1969, was nominated for Ho Chi Minh. This position is considered to be the supreme leader of the Party.

The National Congress of CPV are to be held every five years. Due to the war footing during the wars against French and U.S. troops, the first 4 congresses were not fixed the common time schedule. After the Foundation Conference, 10 national congresses of CPV have been held.

1. 1st Congress, Macau (China), 1935
2. 2nd Congress, Tuyen Quang, 1951
3. 3rd Congress, Hanoi, 1960
4. 4th Congress, Hanoi, 1976
5. 5th Congress, Hanoi, 1982
6. 6th Congress, Hanoi, 1986
7. 7th Congress, Hanoi, 1991
8. 8th Congress, Hanoi, 1996
9. 9th Congress, Hanoi, 2001
10. 10th Congress, Hanoi, 2006

Ten persons have held the First Secretary (1960-1976) and/or General Secretary (1930-1960 and 1976-date) of CPV, namely, Trần Phú (1930-1931), Lê Hồng Phong (1935-1936), Hà Huy Tập (1936-1938), Nguyễn Văn Cừ (1938-1940), Trường Chinh (1941-1946 and 1986), Lê Duẩn (1960-1986), Nguyễn Văn Linh (1986-1991), Đỗ Mười (1991-1997), Lê Khả Phiêu (1997-2001), Nông Đức Mạnh (2001-date). The 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đại há»™i đại biểu toàn quốc lần thứ X, 10th National Congress of Delegates) is the tenth party congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the ruling party of Vietnam, occurring between April 18...

At the Sixth National Party Congress, held in December 1986, Nguyen Van Linh was elected to be the General Secretary while a Politburo of fourteen members was elected and the Central Committee was expanded to 173 members. Nguyễn Văn Linh (1915-1998) was a Viet Cong guerilla leader during the Vietnam-American War. ... A large number of international organizations and other bodies have a secretary general or secretary-general as their chief administrative officers or in other administrative capacities. ...

At the Ninth National Party Congress in 2001, Nong Duc Manh became the new General Secretary. He was re-elected for a second term at the Tenth National Party Congress in 2006. 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nông Ðức Mạnh (農德孟) is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and has held that position since April 22, 2001. ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The present 14-member Politburo, elected in April 2006, determines government policy, and its eight-person Secretariat oversees day-to-day policy implementation. Although there has been some effort to discourage membership in overlapping party and state positions, this practice continues. The Party's Central Military Commission, which is composed of select Politburo members and additional military leaders, determines military policy. April 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Events 1 April 2006 (Saturday) Marcos Pontes, Brazils first astronaut, reaches the International Space Station. ... The Central Military Commission (Chinese: 中央军事委员会 pinyin: Zhōngyāng JÅ«nshì WÄ›iyuánhuì ) refers to one of two bodies within the Peoples Republic of China. ...

A Party Congress, comprising 1,176 delegates at the Tenth Party Congress in April 2006, meets every 5 years to set the direction of the party and the government. The 160-member Central Committee, which is elected by the Party Congress, usually meets at least twice a year, with the Politburo meeting more frequently and the Secretariat being responsible for day to day activities under the direction of the Secretary-General. A Party Congress is a general conference of a political party. ... Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ...

Ideology

The Communist Party of Vietnam has claimed Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Ideology to be ideological basis of the Party and the Revolution. Though formally Marxist-Leninist, the Communist Party of Vietnam has moved towards market reforms in the economy (see also Đổi Mới, the Renewal launched by the Sixth Congress of the Party in 1986) and has permitted a growing private sector. However, the Party retains a monopoly on power. Đổi má»›i (renovation) is the name given to the economic reforms initiated by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the mid-1980s. ... craig is the fittest person ever causer is gr888 x The private sector of a nations economy consists of all that is outside the state. ...

See also

• Nhân Dân (The People)
• Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam

Nhân Dân (The People) is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam. ... The 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đại hội đại biểu toàn quốc lần thứ X, 10th National Congress of Delegates) is the tenth party congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the ruling party of Vietnam, occurring between April 18...

External links

• Official web site
• Nhân Dân (The People): the official party newspaper
• The birth of the Communist Party of Vietnam Article recalling the party's founding in 1930. (This page does not currently load.)

See also: List of Communist Parties, List of political parties in Vietnam, List of political parties There are, at present, a number of communist parties active in various countries across the world, and a number who used to be active. ... Political parties in Vietnam lists political parties in Vietnam. ... This is a list of political parties around the world. ...