Communist Party of Indochina

The Communist Party of Indochina was formed in October of 1930, during the first plenum of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) , where the CPV's central committee had decided to rename the party. A political program was accepted at this plenum, which saw the need for a bourgeois democratic revolution, and considered how this would eventually become a socialist revolution.

A powerful wave of worker and peasant revolts against feudalism and colonialism occurred in Vietnam staring in 1930, directed by the Communist Party of Indochina (CPI). In the provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh, the Nghe-Tinh Soviets were established in 1930. The French colonizers violently attacked these movements and suppressed them. In spite of that, the CPI continued its work. The CPI joined the Comintern in April 1931. The CPI held its first congress in Macau, China from March 27-31, 1935. The congress chose a central committee, formulated how to go about the work of the party, how to create a united anti-imperialist front in Indochina, and how to work with the Soviet Union in terms of support.

At the eight plenum of the CPI in May 1941, the central committee accepted the program of national liberation, and accepted a resolution to prepare for armed struggle. The plenum resolved to assist in the creation of a Vietnamese League for Independence (Viet Minh). The CPI led the Vietnamese August Revolution of 1945. On September 2, 1945, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) was created. The French started a war against the DRV. The Vietnamese people, led by the CPI, began a war of resistance.

The second congress of the CPI occurred from May 11-19, 1951 in the midst of war against the French colonizers. At this congress the Communist Party of Indochina was renamed the Vietnam Workers’ Party.