Here was the former NUM President immortalising himself as a working class hero through his description of the day he urged 15, 000 of Birmingham's engineering workers to join the striking miners.

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Swan said the New Jersey-born working-class hero's musical railings against inequality echoed his own public battle against Australian billionaire mining tycoons who oppose his tax reforms.

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The working-class hero pokes his snout out of his mansion to make yet another fortune out of the misfortunes of blue-collar workers (with the help of a foreign record-label, Sony).

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Indolent blue-collar imbecile Homer may not be a model citizen or a working-class hero, but you have to look next door, at his squarely middle-class, born-again neighbor Ned Flanders to find where the slap invariably sticks.

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Ambrus' proclivity for derring-do would serve him well over the next decade as Hungary lurched uncertainly towards capitalism--and as a working-class population turned Ambrus into a hero as he robbed more than half a million dollars during 29 bank robberies in Budapest.

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