Cần Lao
|
Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party
Cần lao Nhân vị Cách Mạng Ðảng |
|
|---|---|
| Official Leader | Ngo Dinh Diem |
| General Secretary | Ngo Dinh Nhu |
| Founded | 8 August 1954 |
| Dissolved | 1 November 1963 |
| Headquarters | Saigon |
| Newspaper | "Socially" (Xã hội) |
| Youth wing | "Youth Revolution" |
| Women's wing | "Women Solidarity Movement" |
| Membership (1962) | 1,368,757 |
| Ideology |
Person Dignity Theory Anti-communism |
| Religion | Spiritualism |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Green, red |
| Slogan | Labor – Revolution – Personalism (Cần lao - Cách mạng - Nhân vị) |
The Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party (Vietnamese: Cần lao Nhân vị Cách Mạng Ðảng or Đảng Cần lao Nhân vị), called simply Can Lao Party, was a Vietnamese political party, formed in early 1950s by the president of Republic of Vietnam Ngô Đình Diệm and his brother as well as the adviser of the regime, Ngô Đình Nhu.
Based on mass-organizations and secret networks as effective instruments, the Can Lao party played a considerable role in creating a political groundwork for Diệm's power and helped him to control all political activities in South Vietnam. The doctrine of the party was ostensibly based on Ngô Đình Nhu's Person Dignity Theory or Personalism (Vietnamese: Thuyết Nhân Vị) and Emmanuel Mounier's Personalism.
According to Ngo Dinh Nhu, the founder of the Party, The Cần Lao was the "fusion" of the groups which were founded by Ngô Đình Nhu in the early 1950s. In Northern Vietnam, he collaborated with Trần Trung Dung, a Catholic activist who then became South Vietnam's deputy minister of defense. In central Vietnam, Ngô Đình Cẩn's network of loyalists was Nhu's fulcrum. In early 1954, Cẩn established core groups of supporters inside the Army and civil service of the State of Vietnam. In Southern Vietnam, Nhu established a group which served mainly as a roundtable for political debates of intellectuals linked to a journal entitled "Spirit" (Vietnamese: Tinh Thần). In 1953, Nhu allied with Trần Quốc Bửu, a trade unionist who headed the Vietnamese Confederation of Christian Workers with ten of thousands of members. They began to publish a journal called "Society" (Vietnamese: Xã hội), which endorsed the creation of workers' and farmers' cooperatives and unionization rights for industrial laborers in Saigon. Through the alliance with Bửu, Miller argues that the Can Lao program follows unionism and advocates the co-management of national industry by representatives of capitalists and labors, as well as workers' participation in interest and technological development of industries.
...
Wikipedia