Class has always mattered, and now social democratic parties that sprung from a working class — including the Australian Labor Party – are finding out why.
Over many years, and in many countries, a growing view among political actors and within political science was that class was losing its punch. The line was something like this. The working class once voted for labour parties. The middle class voted conservative. But over many years) that difference between how the classes voted got smaller and smaller. In some places it disappeared.
