"Le Travail" was a socialist newspaper written in French published by the students of the Lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi, during the French colonial period. The first issue was published on September 16, 1936. Võ Nguyên Giáp was the editor in chief. Trường Chinh joined in when he was released from jail late 1936. By then Trường 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" (Đồng was also a Politburo member and long time communist functionary).