The New Vietnam Revolutionary Party or Revolutionary Party of the New Vietnam () 1925–1930, was a non-communist revolutionary party in Vietnam's early independence movement founded by Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai.

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During the

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openly democratic patriotic movement in the

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, on July 14,

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, a number of students from Indochina Pedagogical College and a number of former political prisoners in Annam established Hội Phục Việt (''Vietnamese Restoration Association''). After being exposed after spreading leaflets asking the French authorities to release patriot

Phan Bội Châu Phan Bội Châu (; 26 December 1867 – 29 October 1940), born Phan Văn San, courtesy name Hải Thụ (later changed to Sào Nam), was a pioneer of 20th century Vietnamese nationalism. In 1904, he formed a revolutionary organization called ...

(November 1925). Hội Phục Việt changed its name several times and eventually changed to Tân Việt Revolutionary Party (July

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). Tân Việt Revolutionary Party gathered young intellectuals and patriotic petty bourgeois youth, operating mainly in Annam. Born and operating while the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League was thriving, the theories of

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had a great influence, Tân Việt Revolutionary Party attracted a lot of patriotic young people to participate. During its operation, the party split into two left-wing and right-wing tendencies. In the end, the leftist tendency to embrace communism prevailed. Some members were transferred to study at the Revolutionary Youth League (founded in November

, led by Hồ Chí Minh), actively preparing for the establishment of a new party following the path of the Communist Party of Vietnam. In 1929 it became communist and reformed as the Indochinese Communist League (Đông Dương Cộng sản Liên đoàn) which was one of the three communist groups of 1929-1930 which formed the base of the Vietnamese Communist Party. Keat Gin Ooi ''Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East ...'' 2004 Volume 1 - Page 649 "Tân Việt Cách mệnh Đảng (Revolutionary Party of the New Vietnam)... Sometime toward the end of 1929, the Tân Việt party apparently also decided to become communist and to change the name of the organization to the Indochinese Communist League (Đông Dương Cộng sản Liên đoàn). The factionalism of ..."

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