While welcoming some aspects of the recent open letter released by the Civic Nationalist group 'Ireland’s Future' as a worthy breakthrough in opening up and publicising the debate surrounding Irish Unity; as Left wing Republicans Yes For Unity have no option but to be highly critical of its content. YesForUnity was established to ensure that...
The constitutional future of Ireland is now the hot topic within both local and National politics. The Irish Unity debate is growing by day and with it, the inevitable expansion of the wider Irish Unity campaign. Recent events have shown that political Unionism is in a serious state of decline and crisis. Its chaotic...
On the 24th November, the Irish Unity community will be coming together in Lifford/Strabane for the first time in a non-party political, anti-sectarian mobilisation for Irish Unity, a turning point for the entire Irish Unity campaign. Over the past 3 years, ‘Yes For Unity’, the socialist broad front campaign for Irish Unity have travelled across...
Last week, the Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar made unusual comments stating his support and long term aspiration of seeing a United Ireland in his lifetime. While to us, the Irish Unity community, such statements can only be welcomed as it gives our political & democratic demands long term substance by putting the Irish Unity campaign...
In 2017, A Yes For Unity contingent visited Catalunya during the Independence referendum campaign as part of our International outreach, as a learning exercise to gather ideas on how lessons from the Catalonia independence campaign could be applied to the campaign for Irish Unity. YesForUnity International Outreach The most striking lesson we learnt from the experience...
Those from the Irish Unity Community currently tripping over themselves to be pro-EU should be cautious. In a no deal Brexit scenario it will be Dublin, forced by Brussels, erecting the customs infrastructure in order to protect the EU single market. Why would the British Government want to build a new customs' infastructure? In such a...
The release of the new British government proposals to break the deadlock between the British government and EU, have proven to be just another British imposed democratic deficit on the people of Ireland. It is clear to see that the British government have yet again artificially constructed another way to strengthen the unionist veto against...
With the Brexit deadline looming and both sides still locked in what appears to be an ever strengthening stalemate, what both sides (EU, Irish Government & British Government) have in common is their claims that they represent the best interests of the people of Ireland. Every recent credible study and poll has indicated that there...
YES For Unity is the left wing campaign for an Irish Unity referendum, placing the goal of a ‘Socialist Republic’ at the heart of the growing potential that exists for Irish unification in a referendum process. As YES For Unity continues to grow we need to expand the team currently delivering the campaign. A voluntary...
Welcome to yesforunity.ie and the very first blog post of what will be many between today and the eventual day of Irish Unity. The launching of a brand new and professional website by YFU signifies strongly how our campaign (and the principled collective ethos behind it) has assured that an authentically radical socialist voice...
