This programme sets out with the declaration that all instruments of production must be transferred to the possession of the community, and that this can only result from an act of revolution on the part of the working class organized as an independent political party, and then it goes on to say that one of the best means of promoting this end at present was to take part in the elections with the following platform:-- A. _Political._ 1. Abolition of all laws restricting freedom of the press, of association, or of meeting, and particularly the law against the International Working Men's Association. Abolition of "work-books." 2. Abolition of the budget of public worship, and secularization of ecclesiastical property. 3. Abolition of national debt. 4. Universal military service on the part of the people. 5. Communal independence in police and local affairs. B. _Economic._ 1. One day of rest in the week under legal regulation. Limitation of working day to eight hours for adults. Prohibition of the labour of children under fourteen, and limitation of work hours to six for young persons between fourteen and sixteen. 2. Legal fixing of minimum wages every year in accordance with the price of provisions. 3. Equality of wages of male and female labour. 4. Scientific and technical training for all children, as well as their support at the expense of society as represented by the State and the Communes. 5. Support of the aged and infirm by society. 6. Prohibition of all interference on the part of employers with the management of the relief and sustentation funds of the working classes, to whom the sole control of these funds should be left. 7. Employers' liability guaranteed by deposit by employers proportioned to number of workmen. 8. Participation of the workmen in drawing up factory regulations. Abolition of employer's claim to punish the labourer by fines and stoppages (according to resolution of the Commune of 27th April, 1871). 9. Revision of all agreements by which public property has been alienated (banks, railways, mines, etc.). The management of all State factories to be committed to the workmen employed in them. 10. Abolition of all indirect taxes, and change of all direct ones into a progressive income tax on all incomes above 3,000 francs. 11. Abolition of the right of inheritance, except in the line of direct descent, and of the latter in the case of fortunes above 20,000 francs.