The Communist Party of Australia welcomes the opportunity to celebrate the 80th National Day of Vietnam with you. We send our warmest fraternal greetings to the Communist Party of Vietnam on this heroic achievement of the Vietnamese State and People.
The story of Vietnam’s struggle for independence is incredible; how one country could fight off French imperialists, then Imperial Japan, and yet again US imperialism. It is heroism of the highest order. But we know it was done through hard work and immense sacrifice of the Vietnamese people, under the political and organisational leadership of the Party and through the communist morality of comrade Ho Chi Minh, who read the Declaration of Independence on this day in 1945.
We pay respect to all those who died in the anti-imperialist struggle for the cause of Vietnamese independence.
Today the Vietnamese revolution continues in different conditions. From the leadership of Le Duan to Nguyen Van Linh, Nguyen Phu Trong, and now To Lam, Vietnam has developed a strong base level of its productive forces, suitable production relations and a scientific socialist and Marxist-Leninist orientation that is bearing extraordinary fruit.
Vietnam has chosen a socialist path of development, a path towards a socialist society, while continuing to defend the motherland and national sovereignty.
The Communist Party of Australia wishes the people of Vietnam and its leadership the best celebration for independence, sovereignty and socialism.
Long live sovereign Vietnam!
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Communist Party of Australia, CPA
International Department
2 September, 2025
The Communist Party of Australia International Department was contacted with an invitation to attend the 80th Anniversary National Day of Vietnam, which falls on 2 September, at the Hyatt in Canberra. This is the day Ho Chi Minh read out the Declaration of Independence in 1945.
I represented our Party at the event on behalf of Party President Vinnie Molina and General Secretary Andrew Irving. I handed the Ambassador our letter and greetings from our Party President and General Secretary. Ambassador Pham Hung Tam insisted that we have a picture shaking hands which I think is telling about the warmth of our Party-to-Party relationship.
He extended comradely greetings to the Party leadership and offered well wishes for our success.
The Ambassador gave a speech that was well-received outlining Vietnam’s path from hard-won independence to Vietnam’s present status as one of the world’s most robust socialist economic systems. Labor Senator Don Farrell’s in return raised a few eyebrows when he finished with the line “one day we will achieve independence too.”
Vietnam famously defeated French, Japanese and US imperialism: this was a triple victory of giant proportions that changed the history and future of World Communism.
Long live the CPV and long live the CPA!
A Carruthers for CPA
International Department