SOCIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY OF VIETNAM

                                  PROGRAMS

Proclaimed by Lord Huynh the leader, on 21 Sept 1946 (according to the copy of the Executive of Interprovincial Social Democracy M.T.N.V.) 1947 to 1949:

I.-POLITICS:

a) Foreign Policy:

1. Base on the Charter of the United Nations Organisation (UNO) and the joint protection of peace, cooperation with other nations, on a free and equal footing without exception;

2. Aim to fight for all the developing countries to gain national liberation and independence;

3. Actively campaign for international recognition of the right of lesser nations’ right to self-determination and cooperate with these against invading imperialists.

b) Domestic Policy:

1. See Vietnam as one entity: her three regions, North, Centre and South all appertain to the same nation.

2. Consolidate the polity of Democratic Republic by safeguarding the whole people’s right to freedom and democracy.

3. Provide support for Central Government in its movement for unification and sovereignty.

4. Coalesce with similarly interested political parties against colonialism.

5. Maintain “Politicizing the whole people”.

6. Fight the dictatorship of all descriptions.

II.-ECONOMICS:

a) Encompassing Principles:

1. Recognize private property provided it does not adversely affect public life;

2. Maintain nationally vital enterprises under state control;

3. Reserve the right to nationalise a portion of industrial sector;

4. Keep a portion of industrial sector open to domestic and foreign investors;

5. Devise and implement a set of measures in order to prevent workers’ exploitation.

b) Agriculture:

1. Repopulate for land clearance;

2. Establish the national plantations and model villages based on Kibbutz socialism, 

3. Buy back overly concentrated plantations to sell back to the peasants or the state.

4. Establish community funds and production cooperatives to help peasants afford equipment and machinery (tractors, harvesters, trucks v.v.), minimizing intermediary exploitation.

5. Propagate scientific knowledge to raise productivity in agriculture, ranching, irrigation, and forestry v.v.

c) Manufacturing:

1. Develop those necessary distributors of equipment for the sake of the national economy;

2. Step by step develop key manufacturers, initially by light ones;

d) Commerce: Establish consumer cooperatives to sell necessities at an urban and communal level.

e) Finance: Establish the National Bank.

III. SOCIAL WELFARE:

1. Ban narcotics, alcoholism, liqueurs, gambling, prostitution, and corruption;

2. Enforce social laws thoroughly;

3. Improve the lives of tillers, white and blue collar workers by opening medical, educational, vocational, recreational, charity, maternal and infant welfare, childcare, aged care, facilities,, ensuring access and equity for all to the above services. such as scientifically and technologically-derived benefits, from the rural sector.

IV. CULTURE:

1. Ban the slavery-maintaining culture;

2. Set up compulsory, free preschools, primary education;

3. Skills training, overseas studies, and scholarships;

4. Establish career orientation centers.

V. YOUTH

1. Organize and train young people into groups so that they can adapt to modern society;

2. Open restaurants, stations, assembly centres, sport facilities, for youth.

VI. DEFENSE:

1. Establish an army;

2. Hold military courses for village-level reservists shortly.

3. Open cadet academies, sending high-ranking militaries overseas for training;

4. Provide special training courses for officers and soldiers of diverse branches interested to become permanent national troops.

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