Општина Делчево со пригодна свеченост ја одбележа 152-годишнината од раѓањето на Гоце Делчев, идеолог, организатор и водач на македонското револуционерно националноослободително движење кон крајот на XIX и почетокот на XX век.
По тој повод, за животот и делото на Гоце Делчев реферат подготвија членови на КУД „Гоце Делчев“, а пред споменикот на Делчев во центарот на градот се поклонија и свежо цвеќе положија: делегација од Општина Делчево предводена од градоначалникот Горан Трајковски, како и претставници од институциите, политички партии, здруженија на граѓани.
Goce Delchev was educated in Kilkis, where he completed his high school education (1879– 1887), in Thessaloniki, at the Thessaloniki Boys' High School "St. Cyril and Methodius University, where he led a secret student revolutionary circle, and in Sofia at the Military School (1891–1894). He returned to Macedonia (1894) and was a teacher in Novo Selo in Stip.
Here he met Dame Gruev and became involved in the leadership of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. He expanded the network of the Organization (spring 1895) and organized secret channels through Vinica. In Thessaloniki he participated in the consultation with the leading figures of the Organization: Dame Gruev, Pere Toshev and others. for taking a stand towards the Macedonian Committee established in Sofia. In September he was appointed director of the school in Stip. Before the end of December 1895 Delchev, authorized by the Central Committee of the MRO, traveled to Sofia for talks with the Macedonian Committee and his contribution to the Macedonian cause, but the talks were unsuccessful. He organized MRO checkpoints in Kyustendil and Dupnica (in the beginning of 1896), and in February in Stip he organized a protest demonstration against the government.
He participated in the Thessaloniki Congress at which a new ideology and strategy in action was adopted. Together with Gjorche Petrov, they drafted the new Constitution and Rulebook of the Organization.
During the Done affair he was released due to lack of evidence, but in May he was arrested again and taken to Skopje where he was detained in Kurshumli-an, but was released again. However, the affair drew the attention of the Turkish authorities to Delchev. In September he was appointed head teacher (principal) in Bansko, from where he continued the activity of spreading the network of the Revolutionary Organization. He resigned from his teaching duties and devoted himself entirely to the Macedonian liberation work. He took over the position of Overseas Representative of the MRO in Sofia. In a letter to the Catholic Archbishop of Plovdiv, Menini presented to the Vatican the goal of the Macedonian struggle: to correct the unjust solution of the Berlin Agreement for Macedonia and to gain full political autonomy.
After the Thessaloniki affair, Delchev and Gjorche Petrov, as overseas representatives, took over the responsibilities of the Central Committee. After receiving the notification about the arrest of the members of the Central Committee in Thessaloniki, in mid-March they issued an instruction letter with Gjorche Petrov to the district, district and village committees, as well as to the dukes of the companies, to continue acting according to the existing program.
Delchev was dedicated to the functioning of the secret channels, the courier service, the secret mail, the provision of material resources and the supply of weapons, ammunition, revolutionary literature and newspapers to the Organization. Organized production of bombs and explosives in the village. Sabler (Kyustendil region), Burgas, Plovdiv, and then to Sv. Gora (between the Zografski Monastery and Hilandar). He is the founder of the Chetnik Institute and the creator and educator of the first organizational-agitation detachments and dukes. Together with Gjorche Petrov, they drafted a Rulebook for the companies. With the formation of the village militia, the Chetnik organization was added, which was directly led by Delchev, with the status of chief auditor. The revolutionary organization took over the judiciary and the executive. A secret Macedonian state operated in the Ottoman Empire.
To strengthen the ranks of the Organization, Delchev made several instructional tours. In the winter of 1900 he toured the committees in the Edirne region for better coordination between the Macedonian and Thracian revolutionaries. From August 1901 to March 1902 Delchev toured the committees in the central and western part of Macedonia. He also led the congress of the Edirne Revolutionary District held in Plovdiv in April 1902, and then Delchev toured the central Rhodopes. At the end of September, he strongly condemned the Gornodуumaj uprising. Delchev rejected the decision of the Thessaloniki Congress of 1903 to start an uprising and went to the interior of Macedonia with a detachment to lead the withdrawal of the decision for a mass uprising. In April, he met in Thessaloniki with Dame Gruev, who had just returned from captivity, and the two agreed to lead the uprising with intensified Chetnik actions and terrorist acts.