The publication of Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency’s report on multiple deprivation last Wednesday [May 26] has confirmed the inequality that remains at the heart of the Six-County state.

When the workers in Royal Mail in the Six Counties and Britain walked off the job last week as part of a two-day strike, they were subject to the usual slander and vilification from the ignorant and those deliberately trying to misinform.

Éirígí has welcomed the newly adopted position by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions that the Stormont administration is refusing to come clean on the fact that the economic crisis in the Six Counties is twice as bad than has been officially acknowledged.

As Britain’s Stormont administration resumes this month, the impotency of its politicians in the face of the crisis in capitalism continues unabated. Despite a recession affecting greater numbers of people than officially admitted, the Stormont parties collude to conceal both their own ineptitude and the full extent of that crisis from the population.