Ho Chi Minh/Organizations

There was often a tendency, especially before 1975, for Vietnamese Communists to avoid actually giving their organization a name containing the word "Communist" or Vietnamese equivalent. Even when there were coalitions, however, there were distinctly Communist groups, sometimes clandestine.

Association of Revolutionary Vietnamese Youth

A 1920s Communist organization.

Indochinese Communist Party

Actually several organizations of the 1930s and 1940s, briefly called the #Vietnamese Communist Party#Vietnamese Communist Party. During the Second World War, the organization was officially absorbed into broad-front anti-Japanese organizations, and then into nationalist organizations. A distinct Communist organization, however, always existed during these periods.

Revolutionary Youth League

See Viet Nam Thanh Nien Cach Menh Dong Chi Hoi

Tam Tam Xa

A revolutionary organization of the 1920s and 1930s, not strictly Communist.

Thanh Nien

At various times, an inner group of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth Association, or a journal intended to teach Marxism-Leninism.

Thanh Nien Cong San Doan

The Communist Youth League, also known as Association of Revolutionary Vietnamese Youth, of the 1920s.

Viet Nam Than Nien Cach Man Hoi

The Association of Revolutionary Vietnamese Youth, a Communist group of the 1920s

Viet Nam Thanh Nien Cach Menh Dong Chi Hoi

While not an overt Communist organization, this was the first main Communist organization formed, approximately 1926.