{"id":255307,"date":"2024-12-04T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=255307"},"modified":"2024-12-03T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:03:04","slug":"bob-geldof-and-keeping-people-alive","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/bob-geldof-and-keeping-people-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Geldof and keeping people alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 40th anniversary version of the Band Aid song \u2018Do They Know It\u2019s Christmas?\u2019 has been released to celebrate, as promoter Bob Geldof says, \u2018keeping millions of people alive\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>This says everything. In a world with the capacity to feed the global population several times over and give everyone a decent comfortable life, capitalism\u2019s system of producing food (and everything else) for profit means that we\u2019re stuck where we were 40 years ago &#8211; \u2018keeping people alive\u2019 (with of course many not being kept alive).<\/p>\n<p>Only a society of free access to all goods and services can solve hunger permanently, and end the need for charity of all kinds. Otherwise we\u2019ll be stuck here forever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-255307","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/255307","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=255307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}