...Our Party can be proud to be the follower of glorious traditions of our nation and the trail blazer for our people to advance toward a bright future.

All these victories can not be the Party’s own exploits. This is the common exploit of the entire people in the country.

Revolution is the people’s cause not the cause of any individual hero. The success of our Party lies in the fact that it has organised and promoted the people’s inexhaustible revolutionary force and led the people under the sure-to-win banner of Marxism-Leninism.

Imbued with Marx-Leninism, be totally loyal to the interest of the proletariat and of the nation; maintain the unity and unanimity within the Party and among the communist Parties and among countries in the big socialist family, all these can help ensure for the victory of the revolution.

So far, our Party has followed that way. From now on, our Party is certain to do the same.

Our Party has gained big victories, but it does not mean that it has made no mistakes. However, we have never hidden our mistakes, on the contrary we have self-criticised and corrected these mistakes in honesty. Victory does not make us so self-satisfied. Today, with our experience and the exprience of the fraternal parties, we are determined to march forward and march forward ever forever.

So far, our Party has tried to associate Marxism-Leninism with the realities of the Vietnamese revolution. Our cadres and Party members in general have good revolutionary virtues. However, we have still many shortcomings such as individualism, beauraucracy, dogmatism, etc. These have hindered our comrades’ progress. We must try to learn Marx-Leninism and enhance ideological education in the Party and fight to overcome these shortcomings. The class and vanguard characters of the Party should be enhanced; the ties between the Party and the people should also be strengthened. It should also unite all patriots to build socialism and fight for the national reunification. It should try to learn creatively the experience from fraternal Parties. We must not absolutely be arroganta and self-satisfied, we must be as modest as taught by Lenin.

* Ho Chi Minh complete works, volunm 10, National Political Publishing House, Hanoi, 1996, page 197, 198 and 201.