{"id":250795,"date":"2024-03-02T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=250795"},"modified":"2024-03-02T10:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:58:50","slug":"career-reformist-wins-rochdale-by-election","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/career-reformist-wins-rochdale-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Career reformist wins Rochdale by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the egocentric opportunist George Galloway is back in parliament. Some say it was a protest against what is going on in Gaza. There may be something in that. Others see it as a rejection of the Westminster parties. One thing it wasn\u2019t was the election of a Socialist MP.<\/p>\n<p>He promised \u201csecure jobs for all in decent conditions with living wages\u201d, \u201cdecent, cheap secure housing for all\u201d, \u201cfree and comprehensive health care with no waiting lists\u201d, \u201cuniversal access to a cheap or free fully integrated public transport system\u201d. Like the Labour Party used to (a long time ago). Nice if you could get it but you can\u2019t because the money-wages-profits system that is capitalism cannot be reformed to deliver all that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-250795","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/250795","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=250795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}