The Communist Party of Indochina (

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: ''Đông Dương Cộng sản Đảng'' 1929–1930) is one of three predecessors of the

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. Other two predecessors are the

Communist Party of Annam Communist Party of Annam (''An Nam cộng sản Đảng'') was a Vietnamese political party that existed from August 1929 until February 1930. (Annam was the common name of Vietnam at that time.) It was created by leaders of the Communist Youth L ...

(An Nam cộng sản Đảng, 1929–1930) and the

Communist League of Indochina The Indochinese Communist League (Đông Dương Cộng sản Liên đoàn) was one of the three communist groups of 1929–1930 which formed the base of the Vietnamese Communist Party in Vietnam, and within colonial French Indochina. It was form ...

. In March 1929, some radical members of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth League (VARY) ( vi, Việt Nam Thanh niên Cách mạng Đồng chí Hội) including Trần Văn Cung, Nguyễn Đức Cảnh, Trịnh Đình Cửu, Đỗ Ngọc Du, Dương Hạc Đính, Ngô Gia Tự, Kim Tôn formed the first

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. This communist cell's mission as itself claimed is to be the core of a future

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. Trần Văn Cung was voted to be the secretary of the cell. He together with Trịnh Đình Cửu and Kim Tôn were voted to be attendees of the congress of VARY, held in

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in May 1929. In this congress, these attendees proposed to transform VARY to be a communist party. Their proposal, however, was rejected by the leadership of VARY, Trần Văn Cung, Trịnh Đình Cửu and Kim Tôn then made a walkout from the congress. They were later expelled from the Youth League. On 17 June 1929, the above communist cell hold a meeting in

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and decided to form the Communist Party of Indochina, declared the party's political fundamental and proclamation, led by Trịnh Đình Cửu, Nguyễn Đức Cảnh, Ngô Gia Tự, Trần Văn Cung,... The party published ''Búa Liềm'' (Hammer and Sickle) newspaper. Soon thereafter, the Communist Party of Annam was formed in

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in August 1929 and the

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was transformed to be the

in January 1930. In 1930 following appeals for unity by

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, the Communist Party of Indochina united with the

and the

and founded the

References

* Institute of History. ''History of Vietnam, Volume VIII (the period of 1919–1930)''. Publisher of Social Science. Hanoi. * * Noung
The prehistory of the Vietnamese Communist Party
Everything2.com. * Smith, R.B., 'The Foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party, 1929–1930', ''Modern Asian Studies'', 32,4 (1998), p. 799. {{Authority control Defunct political parties in Vietnam Communist parties in Vietnam History of the Communist Party of Vietnam Political parties established in 1929 Political parties disestablished in 1930 1929 establishments in French Indochina 1930 disestablishments in French Indochina 1929 establishments in Vietnam 1930 disestablishments in Vietnam 1920s in French Indochina 1920s in Vietnam