Charles, I'm nonplussed by this injection of subjectivism. "Workers" is an objectively defined category, i.e. "those who sell their labour power to the owners of the means of production." But "oppressed?" - everyone can feel "oppressed" ferchrissake. In fact, fighting "oppression" is a call to arms by the lunatic right who feel "oppressed" by the IRS, the "gummint," "liberal cultural elite," "reverse discrimination" and the kindred pandemonium of bogeymen - not to mention that the Nazis felt "oppressed" by the Jews, Serbs felt "oppressed" by the Bosniaks, and so on.
wojtek