The Communist Party of Vietnam is the ruling party and the only political party allowed to operate in Vietnam under the Constitution. According to the current official Platform and Charter, the Party is the representative of the working class, the working people and the whole nation, taking Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought as the guideline for all activities. motion.[3] In the informal context, the word "Party" (or "Our Party") is also used to refer to the Communist Party of Vietnam.[4][5]

The highest organ of the Party is the National Congress of Deputies, which elects the Central Committee. Between Party congresses, the Party Central Committee is the supreme body that decides on Party affairs. After the congress, the Central Committee will elect the Politburo, the Secretariat and the Central Inspection Committee and elect a Politburo member to be the General Secretary.

A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the social and economic goals of communism. ... In the course of the revolution, the Bolshevik party which became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) assumed government power in Russia after the October Revolution in 1917.