Vanguard Youth Thanh niên Tiền phong | |
|---|---|
| Leader | List
|
| Chairperson | Phạm Ngọc Thạch |
| Spokesperson | Lưu Hữu Phước |
| Founded | July 1, 1945. |
| Dissolved | August 16, 1945 |
| Headquarters | 14 Charner street,[1] Saigon |
| Newspaper | Tiến (Onwards) |
| Membership (1945) | ~ 1,2 million |
| National affiliation |  Empire of Vietnam Empire of Japan |
| Colors | |
| Slogan | "Thanh niên, tiến!" (Onwards, youth!) |
| Anthem | Tiếng gọi thanh niên |
| Party flag | |
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The Vanguard Youth (Vietnamese: Thanh Niên Tiền Phong, chữ Hán: 靑年前鋒) was a mass youth organization established in Cochinchina on 21 April 1945.[2]
This organization was led by Dr. Pham Ngoc Thach of the Indochinese Communist Party, and initially cooperated with the Japanese colonial rulers in hope of securing an independent state.[3] During the summer of 1945, it recruited 200,000 members. Soon, it had over a million members in Cochinchina. Vanguard Youth joined the Viet Minh in August 1945, and embarked in the August Revolution.[4]
After the August Revolution, the organization was divided. And changed their name to the National Salvation Youth (later become the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union). A small number of organization's leaders joined other political organizations.
- ^ Nowaday Nguyễn Huệ street.
- ^ "Sự ra đời của Thanh niên Tiền phong ở Nam Bộ năm 1945" (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on 21 November 2013.
- ^ Nguyễn Kỳ Nam. Hồi ký Nguyễn Kỳ Nam [Memoirs of Nguyen Ky Nam] (in Vietnamese). Vol. 2. p. 73.
- ^ Duiker, William J. (1996). The Communist Road To Power In Vietnam: Second Edition. Routledge.