The August Revolution was the outcome of three revolutionary periods led by our Party. The Soviet Nghe Tinh period showed the staunch revolutionary spirit of workers and peasants but did not correctly define the position of intellectuals.

The Democratic Front period took place with diverse and dynamic activities of workers and intellectuals in urban areas and international cooperation.

In the Viet Minh Front period, our Party and President Ho Chi Minh inherited the revolutionary strength and learned precious lessons from the previous periods to successfully mobilize and assemble patriotic forces of the entire nation in the August 1945 general insurrection to wrest back power for the country. This period showed the integrated strength of the great national unity bloc based on the worker-peasant-intellectual alliance.

The August Revolution changed the destiny of the Vietnamese nation, from slavery to master of the country. It liberated the society and people and generated a great national strength.

That strength continued to grow through the two great resistance wars against two big imperialist forces and proved effective in economic, cultural, art, scientific, health and educational fields.

The working class was the vanguard in the great revolution with the Communist Party as its leader. The worker-peasant alliance made a large and powerful revolutionary army, which shouldered with intellectuals to build a large political force and a resilient revolutionary armed force into a solid bloc of great national unity. The people’s war flared up in rural, mountainous and urban areas. The young revolutionary government made a brave effort to fight the enemies while consolidating the rear area, promoting democracy and improving the people’s material, cultural and spiritual lives.

Workers and peasants built up an invincible strength to overcome any difficulties and hardships in the long protracted war. They were the mainstay of the great national unity bloc.

Intellectuals were closely associated with workers and peasants in the revolution. They made an important contribution to the national liberation cause, the improvement of people’s knowledge and the development of science, health care, education, cultural and arts.

The great national unity bloc built on the worker-peasant-intellectual alliance was furthered reinforced in the periods of the Viet Minh Front, the Lien Viet Front and then, the Fatherland Front. The Front united and gathered people from different social classes, religions, ethnic groups and progressive personalities and became a permanent factor behind the success of the Vietnamese revolution.

In this process, the Communist Party and President Ho Chi Minh trained a large contingent of officials, most of them coming from worker, peasant and intellectual families. They have served as the core of the country’s political system and are loyal to the cause of national independence and socialism.

Reality has proved that the worker-peasant-intellectual alliance is the base of the great national unity bloc, lending great strength to the past resistance wars as well as the current process of national construction. The alliance has proved effective and vital in all aspects of society.

Vietnam and the world have experienced great and important changes. Vietnam has recorded major achievements after more than 20 years of implementing the Party’s renewal policy. The country’s position in the world has been constantly strengthened.

Vietnam is accelerating the socialist-oriented industrialization and modernization process in order to get the country out of the underdeveloped nation status and become an industrialized country by 2020. It has officially joined the WTO and is integrated more deeply into the world economy.

The scientific and technological revolution has rapidly developed with a wide range of economic, cultural and scientific exchanges. However, competition has become ever fiercer on a global scale. Hostile forces have continued to undermine our country.

Issues related environmental protection, population growth, epidemics, natural disasters and the increasing demand for food and energy are major challenges to both the immediate and long-term futures.

In the face of this situation, our Party has summoned up the strength of the entire national political system to carry out the comprehensive renewal process. To achieve the strategic objectives of the Vietnamese revolution, it has encouraged efforts to take advantage of external resources, effectively use development funds, apply advanced technologies and expand markets.

However, it is decisive to develop internal resources, namely promoting the strength of the great national unity bloc based on the worker-peasant-intellectual alliance.

Concretizing the resolutions of the Party’s 10^th Congress, the Party Central Committee has developed resolutions on the working class, the peasantry and the intelligentsia to meet the needs of the new revolutionary period. It will strengthen the revolutionary motivation, maintain political stabilization and create a rapid and sustainable development for the country.

The working class has developed strongly, promoting their revolutionary and vanguard nature to master advanced technologies. Young workers have inherited their class’ revolutionary tradition to improve technical skills and maintain disciplines and a civilized lifestyle.

Peasants play an important role in production to secure food for domestic consumption and export. Some of them have become agricultural workers and created a new working style in new-typed cooperatives and farms.

Intellectuals have become specialized and proved effective in State agencies, scientific research, services and business operation.

They have also contributed to reviewing theories and clarifying unclear issues in reality, creatively applying and developing Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh’s thought and combating deviatory and reactionary viewpoints. However, there is a growing demand for more intellectuals, particularly leading specialists.

Nearly three million Vietnamese are living and working in foreign countries. Some of them are highly educated and have access to high technologies. Our Party and State have issued policies to attract overseas Vietnamese, particularly intellectuals to the national construction and turn external resources into internal ones.

Fully grasping and creatively implementing the resolutions of the Party Central Committee on the working class, the peasantry and the intelligentsia mean to truly develop and consolidate the great national unity bloc in the current period and promote the traditional strength of the August Revolution.