working-class movement

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working-class
adjective
uk
/ˌwɜː.kɪŋˈklɑːs/us
/ˌwɝː.kɪŋˈklæs/
belonging to a social group that consists of people who earn less than other groups, often being paid only for the hours or days that they work, and who usually do physical work rather than work for which you need an ...
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movement
noun
uk
/ˈmuːv.mənt/us
/ˈmuːv.mənt/
a change ...
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(Definition ofworking-classandmovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Viewed from the perspective of theworking-classmovement, these changes illustrate the compound of material gain and ideological loss inherent in those reforms which stabilize capitalist society.
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This centralised, oligarchic and corrupt political system, whose preferred tactic towards the demands of the working class was violent repression, had long since alienated a diverseworking-classmovement.
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The most potent of these was the nationalism of subject peoples, which 'imperialist economism' scouted as diverting theworking-classmovementto the service of reactionary bourgeois causes.
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Unless we have a well-educatedworking-classmovement, we cannot take over industries that we want to take over.
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They have manoeuvred theworking-classmovementinto the position of being a war party.
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He flooded a perfectly legitimate middle-class agitation for the franchise—it was not even aworking-classmovement—with his spies and his provocative agents.
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That is an undesirable thing from the point of view of theworking-classmovement.
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Men who do not belong to any section of theworking-classmovementare getting thoroughly upset with the situation.
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He was loyal to the cause that he served when he first entered theworking-classmovement.
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It is a powerful, united, independentworking-classmovement.
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The function of a politicalworking-classmovementis to mobilise that anti-war opinion throughout the world and make it effective in the affairs of humanity.
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That is a shocking state of affairs for theworking-classmovementto get into.
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Policies were proceeded with which were bound to antagonise theworking-classmovement.
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Theworking-classmovement, however, is very tolerant, and these two men were admitted into the party again.
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All small investors—theworking-classmovementwhich supported these institutions—have been cheated during this period of inflation.
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We shall support any action by theworking-classmovementagainst this policy.
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That is a fair assessment of the situation in theworking-classmovement.
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The working class of this country have built up a powerfulworking-classmovement.
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I do not want to see violence and reaction reintroduced into theworking-classmovement.
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It had a tremendous circulation in theworking-classmovement.
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