{"id":246301,"date":"2023-08-26T14:50:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=246301"},"modified":"2023-08-26T18:16:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T17:16:56","slug":"246301","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/246301\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you just got here from this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-66607841\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC article about our recently published accounts<\/a>, you might be wondering how come a socialist party that wants to abolish money seems instead to be amassing it. <\/p>\n<p>You may as well ask why, if we&#8217;re so concerned about the depredations of modern capitalist production, we don&#8217;t try to help by living in unheated caves and eating grass.<\/p>\n<p>The article is wrong in one detail. Nobody in our Party pays &#8216;fees&#8217;, or any kind of compulsory dues. Members can choose to pay donations, the amount being up to them. Just like with all our tasks and activity, if you don&#8217;t want to, you don&#8217;t have to. <\/p>\n<p>A bit different from most other organisations you know, we think you&#8217;ll agree. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/welcome\/\">Go here to find out more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-246301","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/246301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}