Communist Party of Annam
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Communist Party of Annam (in Vietnamese language: An Nam cộng sản Đảng) was a Vietnamese communist party. The Communist Party of Annam emerged in late 1929, out of the Communist Youth League.[1] The Communist Youth League was formed by Ho Chi Minh in 1926, as a section working within the larger Revolutionary Youth League.[2]
Initially the group was based Guangzhou, southern China, which was a communist stronghold. At the time, the Communist Youth League brought out publications that were clandestinely smuggled into Vietnam. In 1927 the communists were expelled from Guangzhou by Chiang Kai-shek.[3]
The reorganization into a party was provoked by the split between the Communist Youth League and its dissident Tonkin cell led by Tran Vun Cung. The Tonkin fraction had broken away from the Communist Youth League and constituted the Communist Party of Indochina. In order to counter that party, the Communist Youth League was transformed into the Communist Party of Annam.[4]
The splits in the Vietnamese communist movement disturbed the Communist International. On directives by the International, the Communist Party of Indochina and the Communist Party of Annam merged in February 1930 at a conference in Kowloon, forming the new united Communist Party of Vietnam. The conference was presided over by Ho Chi Minh.
