Founding Statement of the National Union for the Salvation of Yemen

A STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL UNION FOR THE SALVATION OF YEMEN

In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.

God Almighty said:
“And what is [the matter] with you that you do not fight in the cause of God and for the oppressed among men, women, and children?”
God Almighty has spoken the truth.

At a historic moment in which the dangers of occupation, dependency, and fragmentation are intensifying, the establishment of the National Union for the Salvation of Yemen is announced as a progressive national framework emerging from the heart of struggle. It expresses an objective need to organize popular action on conscious and radical foundations, in defense of Yemen and its standing within its national environment.

The Union was born in occupied South Yemen, from among its own sons, under the leadership of its authentic southern people, known for their history of struggle, national dignity, and loyalty to the causes of liberation. The Union proceeds from this South not as a margin or a separate entity, but as a living and integral part of the one Yemeni Homeland, and as an advanced base of national resistance against occupation and its instruments.

The Union is grounded in a firm understanding that the Yemeni people, north and south, are an inseparable part of the peoples of the Arabian Peninsula, and that their national struggle falls within the broader conflict against colonialism, reactionary forces, and foreign domination. Historically, republican Yemen constituted one of the pillars of progress in this sphere, which made it a constant target of forces hostile to any sovereign, emancipatory project.

The Union affirms that Yemeni unity represents a historical and strategic choice from which there can be no retreat, and that any divisive projects—no matter how they are cloaked in local slogans or in genuine grievances that have been distorted—serve colonial agendas aimed at breaking the national will and stripping the people of their ability to determine their own destiny.

The Union holds that the reactionary regimes in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been, and continue to be, historical adversaries of republican Yemen, by virtue of their structural hostility to any experience of sovereignty or progress in the Arabian Peninsula. Yet the greatest danger facing Yemen and the region as a whole lies in the colonial Zionist entity, the spearhead of the imperialist project, and the perpetrator of genocide against the Palestinian people.

The Union warns against the accelerating Zionist penetration of the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, in close coordination with the United Arab Emirates, which has manifested clearly in the unilateral recognition of what is called “Somaliland,” in an attempt to establish a colonial foothold on the Somali coast and to create a bridgehead used to strike progressive forces in the region—foremost among them Yemen—as punishment for its principled positions in support of Palestine.

The Union takes pride in Yemen’s steadfast position alongside the Palestinian people, through material and political support grounded in a moral and pan-Arab commitment, and it rejects all attempts to criminalize resistance or to neutralize Yemen from its historical duties toward the causes of the Arab Nation.

The National Union for the Salvation of Yemen bases its project on scientific socialism as a method of analysis and organization, linking national liberation with social justice and placing the interests of workers, peasants, and the toiling masses at the center of political action. It believes that organized masses—foremost among them the masses of the South—are the decisive force in the battle for national salvation.

As it declares its categorical rejection of all forms of occupation, foreign tutelage, and political and economic subordination, the Union calls for the building of a broad progressive national front, encompassing all forces sincere in their commitment to sovereignty, unity, and liberation, within Yemen and across its broader national constants.

The battle of Yemen, which today begins from the occupied South under the leadership of its noble national people, is an inseparable part of the Arab Nation’s struggle against colonialism, Zionism, and reaction. Through Yemen’s unity, the organization of its people, and steadfast adherence to principled positions, the future is safeguarded and the horizons of liberation, justice, and progress are opened.