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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allpages>
      <p pageid="57" ns="0" title="Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy" />
      <p pageid="68" ns="0" title="British Capitalism: Workers and the Profits Squeeze" />
      <p pageid="100" ns="0" title="Capital" />
      <p pageid="99" ns="0" title="Capital, Volume I" />
      <p pageid="64" ns="0" title="Communism and the Family" />
      <p pageid="61" ns="0" title="Divide and Rule" />
      <p pageid="25" ns="0" title="In Defence of October" />
      <p pageid="59" ns="0" title="Karl Marx and His Teaching" />
      <p pageid="24" ns="0" title="Lenin for Beginners" />
      <p pageid="62" ns="0" title="Love of Worker Bees" />
    </allpages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <allpages apfrom="Main Page" />
  </query-continue>
</api>