| The Fenian Prisoners at Manchester and the International Working Men's Association (Marx) | 3 |
| The Position of the International on Prussian Protectionist Tariffs (Marx) | 5 |
| Resolution on Changing the Place of the International's Congress in 1868 (Marx) | 6 |
| Resolution of the General Council on Felix Pyat's Provocative Behaviour (Marx) | 7 |
| Declaration of the General Council Concerning the British Government's Attitude Towards Tsarist Russia (Marx) | 8 |
| Draft Resolution on the Consequences of Using Machinery under Capitalism Proposed by the General Council to the Brussels Congress (Marx) | 9 |
| To the President and Executive Committee of the General Association of German Workers (Marx) | 10 |
| Draft Resolution on the Reduction of the Working Day Proposed by the General Council to the Brussels Congress (Marx) | 11 |
| The Fourth Annual Report of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association (Marx) | 12 |
| To the Directorate of the Schiller Institute (Engels) | 18 |
| On the Dissolution of the Lassallean Workers' Association (Engels) | 20 |
| On the Dissolution of the Lassallean Workers' Association (Postscript) (Engels) | 24 |
| Connections Between the International Working Men's Association and English Working Men's Organisations (Marx) | 25 |
| How Mr. Gladstone's Bank Letter of 1866 Procured a Loan of Six Millions for Russia (Marx) | 28 |
| Preamble to the Resolutions of the Geneva (1866) and Brussels (1868) Congresses of the International (Marx) | 31 |
| Statement to the German Workers Educational Society in London (Marx) | 32 |
| The International Working Men's Association and the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy (Marx) | 34 |
| Resume of the Meetings of the General Council, International Working Men's Association to the Editor of The Bee-Hive (Marx) | 37 |
| Report On the Miners' Guilds in the Coalfields of Saxony (Engels) | 39 |
| The General Council of the International Working Men's Association to the Central Bureau of the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy (Marx) | 45 |
| The Belgian Massacres. To the Workmen of Europe and the United States (Marx) | 47 |
| Address to the National Labour Union of the United States (Marx) | 53 |
| Preface to the Second Edition of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Marx) | 56 |
| Karl Marx (Engels) | 59 |
| Report of the General Council on the Right of Inheritance (Marx) | 65 |
| Report of the General Council to the Fourth Annual Congress of the International Working Men's Association (Marx) | 68 |
| Draft Resolution of the General Council on the Policy of the British Government Towards the Irish Prisoners (Marx) | 83 |
| The General Council to the Federal Council Romance Switzerland (Marx) | 84 |
| Obituary (Marx) | 92 |
| Preface to the Second Edition of The Peasant War In Germany (Engels) | 93 |
| The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners (Marx) | 101 |
| Concerning the Conflict in the Lyons Section (Marx) | 108 |
| The General Council of the International Working Men's Association to Committee Members of the Russian Section in Geneva (Marx) | 110 |
| Confidential Communication (Marx) | 112 |
| To the International Metalworkers' Society (Marx) | 125 |
| Resolution of the General Council on The Bee-Hive (Marx) | 126 |
| Concerning the Persecution of the Members of the French Sections. Declaration of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association (Marx) | 127 |
| Draft Resolution of the General Council on the "French Federal Section in London" (Marx) | 131 |
| Resolution of the General Council on the Convocation of the Congress in Mainz (Marx) | 132 |
| To the Committee of the German Social-Democratic Workers' Party (Marx & Engels) | 133 |
| General Council Resolution on the Federal Committee of Romance Switzerland. The General Council to the Romance Federal Committee (Marx) | 136 |
| The Lock-Out of the Building Trades at Geneva. The General Council of the International Working Men's Association to the Working Men and Women of Europe and the United States (Marx) | 137 |
| Notes for the Preface
to a Collection of Irish Songs (Engels) | 140 |
| Confidential Communication to All Sections (Marx) | 142 |
| Programme for the Mainz Congress of the International (Marx) | 143 |
| The History of Ireland (Engels) | 145 |
Natural Conditions | 147 |
Old Ireland | 168 |
From the Preparatory Materials |
| Notes for an Undelivered Speech on Ireland (Marx) | 189 |
| Outline of a Report on the Irish Question Delivered to the German Workers' Educational Society in London on December 16, 1867 (Marx) | 194 |
| Remarks On the Programme and Rules of the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy (Marx) | 207 |
| Ireland from the American Revolution to the Union of 1801. Extracts and Notes (Marx) | 212 |
I From 1778 to 1782. Independence | 212 |
II From 1782 (after the Declaration of Independence) to 1795 | 230 |
III | 262 |
Summary | 211 |
| Notes on Goldwin Smith's Book Irish History and Irish Character (Engels) | 285 |
| Varia on the History of the Irish Confiscations (Engels) | 297 |
| Plan for The History of Ireland (Engels) | 307 |
| Plan of Chapter Two and Fragments for The History of Ireland (Engels) | 308 |
Appendices |
| Record of a Speech on the Irish Question Delivered by Karl Marx to the General Workers' Educational Society in London On December 16, 1867 | 317 |
| Record of Marx's Speeches on Changing the Place of the Congress of the International in 1868. From Newspaper Reports of the General Council Meetings of May 26 and June 16, 1868 | 320 |
| Wilhelm Eichhoff. The International Working Men's Association. Its Establishment, Organisation, Political
and Social Activity, and Growth | 322 |
| Record of Marx's Speech on the Successes of the International in Germany and France. From the Newspaper Report of the General Council Meeting of July 21, 1868 | 380 |
| Record of Marx's Speech on the Consequences of Using machinery under Capitalism. From the Minutes of the General Council Meeting of July 28, 1868 | 382 |
| Appeal to the German Workers in London | 385 |
| Record of Marx's Speech on the Reduction of the Working Day. From the Minutes of me General Council Meeting of August 11, 1868 | 387 |
| Record of Marx's Speech on the Influence of Competition in Cotton Industry on the Condition of the Working Men in France. From the Minutes of the General Council Meeting of January 5, 1869 | 386 |
| Record of Marx's Speech on the Condition of the Coalminers in the Coalfields of Saxony. From the Newspaper Record of the General Council Meeting of February 23, 1869 | 380 |
| Resolution of the General Council on the Programme of the Basle Congress | 391 |
| Record of Marx's Speeches on Landed Property. From the Minutes of the General Council Meeting of July 6, 1869 | 392 |
| Record of Marx's Speech on the Right to Inheritance. From the Minutes of the General Council Meeting of July 20, 1869 | 394 |
| Record Of Marx's Speech On General Education. From the Minutes of the General Council Meetings of August 10 and 11 | 398 |
| Address or the Land and Labour League to the Working Men and Women of Great Britain and Ireland | 401 |
| Record of Marx's Speech on the Policy of the British Government with Respect to the Irish Prisoners. From the Minutes of the General Council Meeting of November 16, 1869 | 407 |
| Record of Marx's Speeches on the Policy of the British Government with Respect to the Irish Prisoners. From the Minutes of the General Council Meetings of November 23 and 30 | 411 |
| Record of Marx's Speech on the Significance of the Irish Question. From the Minutes of the General Council Meeting of December 14, 1869 | 413 |
| Articles by Jenny Marx on the Irish Question | 414 |
I | 414 |
II | 417 |
III | 420 |
IV | 425 |
V | 429 |
VI Agrarian Outrages in Ireland | 434 |
VII The Death of John Lynch | 437 |
VIII Letter from England | 439 |
| Letter of the General Council to Robert William Hume in New York | 442 |
| Record of Marx's Speech On The Bee-Hive. From the Minutes of the General Council Meeting of April 26, 1870 | 444 |
| Account of a Letter by Karl Marx to the Committee of the Social-Democratic Workers' Party | 445 |
| Record of Marx's Speech on the Split in the Romance Federation. From the Minutes of the General Council Meeting of June 28, 1870 | 446 |
Notes and Indexes |
| Notes | 449 |
| Name Index | 533 |
| Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature | 572 |
| Index of Periodicals | 593 |
| Subject Index | 599 |
Illustrations |
| Page of the Minute Book with Marx's manuscript of "Concerning the Persecution of the Members of the French Sections" | 129 |
| First page of Engels History of Ireland | 149 |
| Map of Ireland | 158-59 |
| Page of Marx's manuscript Ireland from The American Revolution to the Union of 1801 | 213 |