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  • AUSTRALIA

    Zimbabwe needs the ballot, not the bullet

    • Oskar Wermter
    • 30 June 2008
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    Gangs of party youth rampage through working class Harare assaulting anyone suspected of voting against Robert Mugabe. When they kill, these youths — uneducated, frustrated, high on Mugabe's ideology of hatred — think they are defending Zimbabwe's sovereignty.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Strong characters outlast cheesy moments

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 07 August 2006

    Footy Legends has its share of cheesy moments, but as a tribute to working-class Australian suburbia, and a good-natured reflection on the iconic ‘little Aussie battler’, it’s a film that will move and amuse in equal parts.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A planet of slums

    • Gary Pearce
    • 10 July 2006

    Mike Davis' new book belongs to a long tradition of studies of the urban poor – among them, Friedrich Engels’s examination of Victorian Manchester in The Condition of the Working Class in England. Davis updates this genre for a period of globalisation.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Old days, lost ways

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 04 July 2006

    My grandmother lost four children. Born in the 1870s, she lived the perilous life of a respectable married woman of the working classes in the early part of the 20th century.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Easing tensions in Sydney's Little Shanghai

    • Deborah Singerman
    • 29 May 2006
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    With a predominantly working class Anglo-Celtic population, pre-World War II Ashfield was a green escape from inner-city Sydney. But now Chinese have settled in large numbers, and some blame them for what they see as Ashfield’s disrepair and unwelcoming atmosphere.

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