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During his revolutionary activities, leader Nguyen Ai Quoc - Ho Chi Minh soon realized that the press was a sharp weapon on the ideological and cultural front. He was the founder of Vietnam's revolutionary press, a teacher and a pioneer soldier on this front.
The founder of Vietnamese revolutionary journalism
On the path of revolutionary activities, the journey to start the Vietnamese revolutionary press was when President Ho Chi Minh completed his theoretical and practical awareness of the path to national liberation, preparing the steps in terms of ideology, organization, and people to move towards establishing a proletarian political party in Vietnam.
With the concept that journalism is to make a revolution, he participated in founding the newspaper Le Paria (The Miserable) to create an information channel, to denounce the brutal nature of French colonialism, to make the world people know about the "miserable" life of the Vietnamese people; from there, he spoke out to support Vietnam in the struggle for "self-liberation".
On June 21, 1925, Thanh Nien Newspaper - the mouthpiece of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association was established and published its first issue. This was the first Vietnamese-language newspaper of the Vietnamese revolution, founded, directed and written by Nguyen Ai Quoc. This historic event marked the beginning of the birth and continuous development of the Vietnamese revolutionary press.
In December 1926, he founded the Cong Nong newspaper for the working class and farmers of Vietnam. In February 1927, he founded the Linh Kach Menh newspaper for the revolutionary soldiers. In the fall of 1928, Nguyen Ai Quoc secretly went to Thailand. He suggested changing the name of the Dong Thanh newspaper of overseas Vietnamese to Than Ai. He also participated in writing articles and directing this newspaper.
The newspapers published publicly or secretly by the Founder abroad all focused on spreading the revolutionary ideology of Marxism-Leninism, preparing the theoretical and practical foundation for the establishment of a new type of Communist Party with the ability and political courage to lead the people to rise up to break the yoke of slavery, gain independence and freedom for the Vietnamese nation.
In the year our Party was born, he founded the Red magazine (first issue published on August 5, 1930), and was also the director and close collaborator of the newspapers: Hammer and Sickle, Struggle, Voice of Ours... with many different pen names.
In early 1941, after returning to the country to directly lead the revolution, he directed the 8th Central Conference to establish the Viet Minh Front and founded the newspaper Vietnam Independence in the Viet Bac base. He numbered the first issue 101 (meaning that this was a newspaper continuing the tradition of previous revolutionary newspapers) on August 1, 1941. Vietnam Independence contributed to promoting propaganda and organizing people into national salvation organizations in the Viet Minh Front to prepare for an uprising to seize power. In 1942, he directed the establishment of the newspaper Cuu Quoc.
After the August Revolution, he continued to organize and publish a number of new newspapers. After the Second National Party Congress (February 1951), he directed the establishment of Nhan Dan newspaper - the Party's mouthpiece, the first issue was published on March 11, 1951. In addition to founding and directing the newspaper's activities, he was also a very enthusiastic contributor to the newspaper: From issue 1 to issue 5,526 (June 1, 1969), he had more than 1,200 articles published in Nhan Dan newspaper with 23 different pen names.
It can be said that in any situation and position, writing for newspapers became a need for his revolutionary activities.
The great teacher of Vietnamese revolutionary journalists
During his life of revolutionary activities, President Ho Chi Minh wrote about 2,000 articles and works of many genres. These are important theoretical works, a guide for our Party and people in the revolutionary stages. He left behind many valuable lessons about journalism and professional revolutionary journalism skills.
Ho Chi Minh's journalistic writings were very rich - from political commentary, commentary, memoirs, reports, notes to short news, even illustrations; leaving their mark on many special topics: about imperialism, colonialism, America, France, China, many Southeast Asian countries... All of his articles always "have something very Ho Chi Minh". There, the effectiveness of journalism is promoted by a broad and profound understanding of cultures and civilizations.
Re-reading President Ho Chi Minh's speeches and writings, it is easy to recognize the clarity of writing style, the simplicity in presentation so that even difficult and complex content becomes easy to understand for listeners and readers - not expressed in a lofty, difficult-to-understand way, but close, easy to understand, easy to remember, easy to follow. Regardless of the genre of the writings, serving which audience, talking about specific issues of fighting life, labor or major issues of the country, nation, and era, according to Ho Chi Minh, to write clearly, simply, and easily understood, one must learn the way of speaking of the masses. Only by learning the way of speaking of the masses can one be accepted by the readers, the masses. He taught "Do not be greedy for words", "Writing must be practical". Although he was an erudite person, knowledgeable about Eastern and Western cultures, and knew many foreign languages, he often used simple, common words that accurately reflected the nature of things, with high persuasive power.
In September 1962, at the 3rd Congress of the Vietnam Journalists Association, he emphasized: “Journalists are also revolutionary soldiers. Pens and paper are their sharp weapons”. In his expression, he believed that “journalists must be extremely careful about form, content, and writing style” and before picking up a pen to write, each journalist must ask himself “Who are you writing for? What is the purpose of writing? How to write so that the general public can easily understand, be concise and easy to read?”.
To fulfill that glorious mission, he required journalists to constantly study and improve their political knowledge and professional skills. He also required press cadres to know how to self-criticize and criticize. He considered it "a very necessary and sharp weapon, it helps us correct mistakes and develop our strengths". For revolutionary journalists, "writing is like anything else, we must have determination, do not hide our ignorance, thanks to self-criticism and criticism we can progress" and must "criticize with a sincere spirit, build "cure diseases and save people".
