(PTOJ) - The organizational and operational model of local governments in our country is constantly being renovated. The decentralization among central and local governments has improved, localities have more autonomy and policy space to realize their development goals. The effectiveness and efficiency of local governments’ operations have improved and been enhanced. However, besides the achieved results, the organization and operation of local governments still shows many limitations. This article analyzes and evaluates the current situation and proposes some solutions to continue renovating the organizational and operational model of local governments in the spirit of the Resolution of the 13th National Congress.

(PTOJ) - Social consciousness is an important content of Marxist - Leninist philosophy. A thorough understanding of this issue is of great significance to building new social consciousness, thereby contributing to the success of building a socialist-oriented nation with prosperous people, a strong country, and a democratic, equitable, and civilized society.

(PTOJ) - Intellectuals play an essential role and are a decisive factor in the development of each country. As intellectual laborers, intellectuals contribute to social development with innovative products which are new scientific knowledge, creating fundamental and positive social changes. In the current context, promoting intellectuals’ creativity has become a condition for Vietnam’s development. The article helps to clarify the theory of innovation and discusses the conditions for promoting innovation among Vietnamese intellectuals in the spirit of the Resolution of the 13th National Congress.

(PTOJ) - Renewing the Party’s leadership and ruling modes is one of the tasks set out by the 13^th Party Congress, where the new concept of “the Party’s leadership and ruling modes” was used for the first time after in-depth theoretical and practical research. In order to renew the leadership and ruling modes, it is required to clearly define the Party’s leadership and ruling contents and find proper solutions.

(PTOJ) - Issues about religion, democracy and human rights are always the subjects that hostile forces use to oppose the Party and State of Vietnam. The article identifies wrongful, hostile, and distorting views on religious freedom in Vietnam as stated in the Annual Reports of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and some other social web pages. At the same time, it provides evidence to criticize, fight against and refute such false and distorted views, affirming the achievements of the State of Vietnam in ensuring the right to freedom of belief, religion, and the right to freedom of non-religion of the Vietnamese people.

(PTOJ) - The nature of the working class of the Communist Party is the core content of the Communist Party; it is also one of the basic principles of the Marxist - Leninist theory of the Communist Party. Based on our revolutionary situation and specific condition, President Ho Chi Minh and the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) inherited and creatively developed the Marxist - Leninist theory of the working class nature of the Communist Party. The article analyzes some of the creative inheritance and development of the CPV.

(PTOJ) - With outstanding intellect and extraordinary energy, after 10 years (from 1911 to 1920) of living, working, and being active in many countries, Nguyen Ai Quoc had transformed from a patriot to become the first communist in Vietnam. Upon acquiring Marxism - Leninism - the great truth of the times, he put the national liberation revolution in Vietnam into the orbit of the proletarian revolution and brought the Vietnamese revolution to great victories. The article clarifies Nguyen Ai Quoc’s journey to become a communist; analyzes the cause of success and the meaning of that event to the history of the Vietnamese nation in particular and the history of mankind in general.

(PTOJ) - Continuing to build and perfect the Vietnamese Socialist law-rules State of the people, by the people and for the people led by the Party is the central task of the political system reform. That goal is associated with “Building and perfecting the Socialist law-ruled State that is transparent, strong, streamlined, effective and efficient, for the people and for the development of the country” in the spirit of the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress. The Article focuses on evaluating the results, limitations and causes; thereby highlighting the orientations in building and perfecting the Vietnamese Socialist law-ruled State in the new context.

(PTOJ) - Ho Chi Minh’s thought on social security is a system of comprehensive and profound views on policies to assist people in preventing, overcoming, and limiting risks in life. The article examines the fundamentals of Ho Chi Minh’s thoughts on social security and the application of his ideas in current practice.

(PTOJ) - Reviewing the contributions of the Political Theory Journal to ideological and theoretical work and training and fostering cadres of the Party over 45 years with 524 issues and articles, some directions are proposed to build a vital Journal, making practical contributions to improving the leadership capacity of the Party, effectively serving the cause of building a prosperous and happy country.

(PTOJ) - Implementing the Resolution of the 6th Plenum of the 12th Central Party Committee, the renewal and arrangement of the organizational apparatus of Vietnamese political system has achieved important results, streamlining the organizational structure, and streamlining the boundary and mechanism and restructuring the contingent of cadres, civil servants and public employees. In the coming time, it is necessary to increase the leadership of the Party, the determination of the whole political system and specific solutions to continue to innovate, arrange the organizational apparatus of the political system to get better effectiveness.

(PTOJ) - In the renewal effort of Vietnam for the goal of “prosperous people, strong country, democratic, equitable and civilized society”, building a national value system and a cultural value system is an objective need. For each step of national development, a value system is needed to guide, evaluate and adjust social behaviors. On the basis of theory and practice as well as the Party’s awareness of building the national value system and cultural value system, the paper researches on the building of the national and cultural value systems of Vietnam in the new period.

(PTOJ) - In the context of globalization and the Industrial Revolution 4.0, Vietnam is becoming deeply and comprehensively integrated, the Party and the entire people strive towards the desire to build a prosperous and strong nation. The objective set forth for Vietnamese diplomacy is to develop into a modern one in order to better serve our national economic development. The article outlines directions, objectives, and solutions for Vietnamese diplomacy to reach this goal in the upcoming period.

(PTOJ) - The identification of strategic breakthroughs in each stage of national development plays an important role as leverage for socio-economic development. Therefore, the Socio-economic Development Strategy (2011-2020) specified three strategic breakthroughs which continue to be supplemented and developed in the Documents of the 13^th National Party Congress. This article begins with a definition of “strategic breakthroughs”, then clarifies some of their aspects that are inherited and developed at the 13^thCongress, and finally suggests some conditions to successfully implement the strategic breakthroughs.

(PTOJ) - The core and cross-cutting ideology of the draft Documents submitted to the 13th National Party Congress is as follows: On the basis of implementing three strategic breakthroughs (mechanism, human resources, infrastructure), first and foremost, it is necessary to synchronously complete the development mechanism to build trust; thereby arousing the aspiration for national development in order to nurture and promote innovation need and capacity for the independence, freedom, happiness and prosperity of the Vietnamese nation and people.