Song ngu _ Wikipedia: Communist Party of Vietnam Jump to navigationJump to search Communist Party of Vietnam Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam Emblem of Vietnam Communist Party.png General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng Executive Secretary Võ Văn Thưởng Founder Hồ Chí Minh Founded 3 February 1930; 91 years ago Merger of PRPSV WPNV CPI CPA CLI Headquarters 1A, Hung Vuong Street, Ba Đình District, Hà Nội Newspaper Nhân Dân Student wing Vietnamese Students' Association Youth wing Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneer Organization Women's wing Vietnam Women's Union Armed wing People's Army of Vietnam Membership (2019) 5,200,000 Ideology Communism Marxism–Leninism Ho Chi Minh Thought Socialist-oriented market economy Socialist patriotism Political position Far-left National affiliation Vietnamese Fatherland Front International affiliation International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties Colors Red Antheml'internationale MENU0:00 National Assembly 464 / 483 Party flag Flag of the Communist Party of Vietnam.svg Website en.dangcongsan.vn Politics of Vietnam Political parties Elections The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)[a] is the founding and ruling communist party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Although it nominally exists alongside the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, it maintains a unitary government and has centralised control over the state, military and media. The supremacy of the Communist Party is guaranteed by Article 4 of the 1 national constitution. CPV was founded in 1930; since 1954, it has been the ruling party of North Vietnam and then the Socialist Republic after seizing power in South Vietnam in 1975. It