The first English colony after 150 years............

The first English Colony - The nation of Ireland - after 150 years of national oppression "gained",

A power-sharing local authority!!
"In 1855-66" Marx wrote, "1,032,694 Irishmen were displaced by 996,877 head of cattle." The most urgent need was to end the forcible eviction of peasants and to stop the landlords, back by English authorities, from robbing the Irish farmers of their livelihood. This Marx and Engles stressed, must be the first objective for the Irish National Liberation Movement.

Marx Engels: Ireland and the Irish Question, Progress publishers fourth printing 1986 page 24 .