{"id":255121,"date":"2024-11-27T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=255121"},"modified":"2024-11-27T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:19:32","slug":"rights-and-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/rights-and-freedoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights and freedoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-11-human-rights-abuses-worldwide.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report from the URI Global Rights Project<\/a> reveals that &#8216;most countries around the world have failed to adequately protect the human rights of their citizens&#8217;. Countries with fail grades were more than double those with passes. 62% earned an F grade, while just 18% earned an A or B.<\/p>\n<p>Hardly surprising for a global system built on wage-slavery. In any case &#8216;human rights&#8217; don&#8217;t really make sense. There is the &#8216;right&#8217; to bear arms, and the &#8216;right&#8217; to kill apostates. But where is the &#8216;right to eat&#8217; or the &#8216;right to a home&#8217; or even the &#8216;right to peace&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Never mind demanding concessionary &#8216;rights&#8217; from the boss class. We need to seize our freedom through global revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-255121","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/255121","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=255121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}