August Revolution
Due to the movement by the Popular Front in 1936 the French colonial government was forced to release some political prisoners from Con Dao. Tran Tu Binh was one of them. After being amnestied from Con Dao he returned home to work as a clerk in Binh Luc District and secretly continued to take part in communist activities against French. From 1936-1940 Tran Tu Binh was appointed as communist party secretary of Binh Luc District and then party secretary of Ha Nam Province.
In 1940 he was elected by the communist party as a member of Northern Region (Tongkin) Committee (Xu Uy Bac Ky) and Commissar of Interregional Network C (including Ha Nam, Nam Đinh, Thai Binh, Ninh Binh Provinces) and network D (Vinh Phuc, Phuc Yen, Phu Tho, Tuyen Quang Provinces) in 1941 and 1943. He became one of the most wanted objects of French Gendarmerie in TongKing during 1940s.
On 24 December 1943 Tran Tu Binh was arrested again in Thai Binh Province and was imprisoned in Ha Nam Prison. In early 1944, after an unsuccessful attempt at jailbreak, he was sent to Hoa Lo Prison (Hanoi), where he became one of the organizers of a famous collective escape for over 100 political prisoners.
After he returned to the rear, Tran Tu Binh was appointed as a standing member of Xu Uy Bac Ky and was in charge of establishment and development of Hoa-Ninh-Thanh military base for the League for the Independence of Vietnam (Viet Minh).
On August 14, 1945, the Japanese surrendered to the Allies. The leaders of Viet Minh decided to act promptly to seize the power from the weak and helpless Tran Trong Kim’s pro-Japanese puppet government before the French returned. On 19 August 1945, Tran Tu Binh and Nguyen Khang, the two representatives of Xu Uy Bac Ky remained in Hanoi, directly commanded the general uprising in Hanoi and some neighboring provinces which lead to a start of the successful August Revolution of 1945.
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