{"id":257465,"date":"2025-03-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=257465"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:24:21","slug":"scratching-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/scratching-the-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratching the surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s going to be Red Nose Day again and you can&#8217;t switch on the TV without being reminded that celebrities will be wearing funny noses to collect money to improve the lives of poor children. Does it do any good? A little maybe. But in the end charity can only scratch the surface of the poverty problem.<\/p>\n<p>The Oxfam food policy director Hanna Saarinen, said: \u2018We need to reimagine a new global food system to really end hunger; one that works for everyone.\u2019 But this is not feasible in the current system. We need a whole different society, dedicated to catering for the needs of everyone, not producing profit for the tiny minority &#8211; one that will render Red Nose Days unnecessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-257465","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/257465","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=257465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}