Revolutionary morality

The eighth plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Throughout his revolutionary career, President Ho Chi Minh always paid attention to educating and training the revolutionary morality of officials and Party members, considering this the foundation and root of revolutionists. Inheriting his ideology, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has placed special importance on cultivating the revolutionary moral foundation and raising the responsibility for setting examples of officials and Party members, in order to enhance the public’s confidence in the Party and make the Party purer and stronger. The 12th CPV Central Committee (CPVCC) has recently issued Regulation No. 08-QDi/TW on the responsibility for setting examples of officials and Party members, firstly members of the Politburo, the Secretariat and the CPVCC. Under the document, officials and Party members have to set examples in eight aspects, especially in morality and lifestyle. This is the first time the responsibility for setting examples of senior Party leaders, including members of the Politburo, the Secretariat and the CPVCC, has been mentioned openly and directly. The Regulation has received approval from officials and Party members, as well as the masses. It says officials and Party members, firstly members of the Politburo, the Secretariat and the CPVCC, must be paragons of morality and lifestyle, preserve the prestige of officials and fight degradation and negative phenomena. Over the past two tenures, the Party issued two resolutions at the fourth plenums on Party building and rectification, focusing on political ideology, morality and lifestyle… [Read full story]