Background
In the last decade of the 19th century, France was having a lot of social problems. From 1890 to 1914, vagabonds were banished to colonial prisons, unemployed people and labouring poor and rural migrants to cities were an overwhelming problems. Many important social reforms were introduced and was appreciated by the French, among them were the socialist and communist parties.
In 1936, the French communist party and socialist party became the two among the Front Populaire. Vo Nguyen Giap, then was a student of the lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi, North Vietnam, viewed this as an opportunity to use it as a political tool for the Vietnamese anticolonialist-movement.
"Le Travail" was a socialist newspaper written in French published by the students of the Lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi, North Vietnam, during the French colonial period. The first issue was published on September 16, 1936. Vo Nguyen Giap was the editor in chief. Trường Chinh joined in when he was released from jail late 1936. By then Truong Chinh had been a longtime member of the Politburo and a communist functionary. Soon thereafter Phạm Văn Đồng also came to work at Le Travail (Dong was also a Politburo member and long time communist functionary).
Vo Nguyên Giap stated that the paper had to be written in French to get around the colonial administrative difficulties.
Read more about this topic: Le Travail Movement
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