{London, about 25 November 1865] 

I. Questions relating to the Association 

1) Question of organisation. 
2) System of friendly societies for the members of the Associa- 
tion. Moral and material support for the Association’s orphans. 

II. Social questions 

1) Co-operative labour. 

2) Reduction of the hours of labour. 

3) Children’s labour. 

4) [Trades’ Unions,] their past, their present, and their future. 

5) [Combination] of efforts, by means of the International 
Association, in the struggle between capital and labour. 

6) International credit, banking institution, mode of operation. 

7) Direct and indirect taxation. 

8) Standing armies and their effects upon production.” 

a Marx is referring to his letter to Kugelmann of 23 February 1865 (see this 
volume, pp. 101-06). - > The French text mistakenly has here: ‘Association’. 

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III. Questions of International Politics 

The need to reduce Muscovite influence in Europe by applying 
the rights of self-determination of nations, and the re-establishment 
of Poland upon a democratic and social basis. 

IV. Question of Philosophy 

The religious idea and its relation to social, political and 
intellectual development.