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Following Uncle Ho’s testament, build the Party strong for the eternity of the Fatherland

IV. Building the youth both “red and expert”, meeting the requirements of Homeland construction and defense

Youth plays an important role in every nation and in every time. According to President Ho Chi Minh: “New year begins with the spring. New life begins with the youth. The youth is the spring of the society”; “For the sake of a decade, plant trees. For the sake of a century, raise people”. In his revolutionary cause, educating and training the youth is a must, a permanent thought and action to promote the role of this force in building a rich and powerful Vietnam.

One of the distinctive features of President Ho is that his thought, words, and actions are always united and consistent. Not only writing books and articles to condemn all acts of poisoning and exploiting the youth, he also founded the Youth Newspaper (June 1925), the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association (June 1925) with the Communist Union being the core force, to spread propagation, waken, gather, educate, nurture and training youths to become “red seeds” for the revolutionary cause of the Party and the country. In 1931, our Party issued a resolution on the organization of the Communist Youth Union (the Union). Right after the success of the August Revolution in 1945, he directed our Party and State to pay attention to the building of youth organizations, first and foremost the Youth Union and the legitimate interests of the youth; at the same time, create favorable conditions for the youth to promote their revolutionary morale, be loyal to the country, pious to the people, accomplish any tasks, overcome any hardships and defeat any enemies. He required that each youth  and member of the Union try their best in their political, cultural and occupational studies; exercise to have good health; unite together, overcome hardship and be ready to “Serve the Homeland and the people, make the people prosperous, the country strong means being truly the owners of the country”. He believed that “with a generation of voluntary and resilient youths, we will surely succeed in the cause of building socialism in the North, liberating the South and uniting the country”.

Before passing away, with his strategic view, scientific thinking, his love and responsibility with the Party revolutionary cause and the nation, he wrote in his testament that: “ In general, our youths are good in characteristics. They have high voluntary morale, boldness mind and strong will of determination. Our Party should train and educate them both red and expert so that they can take over the cause of building socialism. Nurturing revolutionary spirit for the next generations is very important and necessary”. Though his writing was short with only 74 words, it has not only accurately assessed the role and characteristics of Vietnamese youths, but also pointed out the responsibility of our Party, State in nurturing the goals, ideal, morality, political stance, knowledge, capability, spirit, physical strength, will of youths to make them the inheritors of the cause of national liberation, unification, construction and defense. This is the essence of Marxist theory, the quintessence of national and mankind’s culture, and his practice of training and educating the youths through revolutionary phases; the matter of strategic importance which directly decides the power of the Party and the destiny of the nation. Besides, it also serves as the orientation for our Party and State in educating, training and promoting the role of the youth in the cause of national construction and defense today and tomorrow. Building the next revolutionary generation both red and expert is the political responsibility, showing the “moral and civilized” nature and the strategic vision of President Ho Chi Minh and our Party.

Being imbued with his thought and following his teaching in his testament, our Party and State have issued a number of guidelines and policies for leading, directing, building, nurturing and training young generations and regard this as an important and permanent political mission throughout revolutionary cause. Youth’s organizations, notably the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has always been strong in politics, ideology, organization, and morality; deserved the inheritors of the Party where revolutionary actions are taken place to gather, educate and nurture the youth.

Entering the new period, the 4th Central Resolution (7th tenure) of the Party defined that: “Whether the renewal cause succeed or not, and whether Vietnam’s revolution can continue to follow socialism path or not depend mainly on the youths, and the training of youth; youth work is vital to the nation, and one of the decisive factors to the success of the revolution”. The Party Central Committee (10th tenure) issued the Resolution No. 25-NQ/TW on “Strengthening the Party’s leadership over youth work for the modernization and industrialization era”; the Politburo (11th tenure) issued the Conclusion No. 80-KL/TW on “Boosting the implementation of the Resolution No. 25-NQ/TW”; the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat (12th tenure) issued the Directive No. 42-CT/TW on “Strengthening the Party’s leadership over the education of revolutionary ideal, morality, lifestyle for youth in the 2015 - 2030 period”. Institutionalizing the Party’s viewpoints, the State has promulgated the Youth Law (2005); the Youth Union Central Committee has signed with the Government the Regulations for coordination among ministries, sectors, central and local socio-political organizations on the education, training, and employment of youth.

With strong determination, scientific, comprehensive and synchronized methods of implementation, high consensus, the involvement of the entire political system and people of all strata, the education of youth has gained significant results. Vietnam’s youths have proved themselves to be a pillar and the future owners of the country; the vanguards in the cause of industrialization, modernization, international integration, national construction and defense. However, there remain limitations and disregard in the implementation of the Party’s viewpoint, resolution and directive on the youth work. Some youth’s organizations, including the Youth Union, lack pro-activeness and creativity in their activities, hence not attractive to young people. Parts of the youth are apathetic in the Party and Youth Union. They become disoriented, undisciplined, selfish in life, lazy in study, and unprofessional in work. Specifically, some develop contrast goals and ideals to the Party and the nation, and commit serious crimes. Meanwhile, union members and youths are being affected by the negative effects of the market economy. They are a prime target of hostile forces’ strategy of “peaceful evolution”, “self-evolution” and “self transformation”.

In order to build the youths - the future owners of the country - both red and expert in accordance with the testament of President Ho Chi Minh, it is necessary to carry out comprehensive and synchronized measures and solutions, including the following ones:

First, further strengthen propagation and education on revolutionary ideal, morality, lifestyle for the Union members and youths. Our nation is proud to have President Ho Chi Minh. It is him who have changed our country. Studying and following his example will make each youth proud of the Party, the President and the past generations, so that they nurture good ideal for life, ambition and pro-activeness. Besides, it is necessary to brief the youth of the opportunities and challenges of the country, the plots of “peaceful evolution” of hostile forces; develop for them a law-abiding and responsible lifestyle with “rich soul, clear mind, big ambition”, deserve to be youths of Ho Chi Minh era and the future owners of the country.

Second, focus on building youth union organizations strong in politics, ideology, organization and morality. To make the Youth Union strong, it is necessary to pay attention to making its cadres a staff of noble ideal and ambition, good political stance and morality, high skills and good capability. This is an important matter, directly deciding the quality of the Union. Therefore, we should pay attention to and create favorable conditions to the education and training of these cadres to make them truly “red seeds” for other youths to follow. Each level should build program and plans with concrete contents meeting the political missions. Each Union cadre should practice self-education, self-training, word - action synchronization, and effectiveness. Resolutely get rid of those who show degradation in political ideology, morality, lifestyle, “self evolution”, “self transformation”, etc. Proactively combat against individualism, criticize bad lifestyle and actions; encourage modern lifestyle, solidarity, self criticism and criticism, etc. Each cadres and member of the Union should further grasp and follow Ho Chi Minh ideology, morality and style with concrete standards and goals to make a big change in political stance and ideology, morality, method, and lifestyle for other youths to follow.

Third, improve knowledge, skills, physical strength and capability for Union members and youths. We should concretize the Party’s viewpoints and guidelines, the State’s policies and laws into suitable plans of actions, training for each level, group of learners, meeting the requirements of national construction and defence in the time of industrialization, modernization and international integration. Accordingly, at tertiary level, it is necessary to “combine scientific theory with practice, study advanced theory and science of foreign countries and apply into domestic practice to make contribution to the cause of national construction”. At secondary level, it is necessary to equip learners with essential popular knowledge which is relevant to the demand and requirements of national construction. Unnecessary contents can be removed. At the same time, pay attention to improving living standard, physical strength of youth and equip them with knowledge, skills for integration, working, communication, and law-abiding habit.

Fourth, effectively carry out revolutionary movements, create conditions for training and nurturing Union members and youths in all aspects. Revolutionary movements should be organized synchronously with focuses and relevance to the demands of the youth and reality. Through the movements, youths can experience, devote, serve and mature to contribute to realizing the socio-economic goals of the country and of each unit, locality. Besides the movements of “pioneering and voluntary in socio-economic development and Homeland protection”, “Accompany with the youth’s life and career”, etc, we should plan new programs to attract the youth’s participation, especially new and difficult tasks, to contribute to fulfilling the goal of “Prosperous people, strong, democratic, equal, and civilized country”, deserve to inherit and continue the revolutionary of President Ho Chi Minh, the Party and the nation.

(to be continued)

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