{"id":262565,"date":"2026-01-28T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=262565"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:31:01","slug":"leaders-are-no-good","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/leaders-are-no-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders are no good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bF_a_w7Dozo\" target=\"_blank\">Party Political Broadcast<\/a> last Thursday, the Greens\u2019 leader Zach Polanski ran through the problems people face and pointed out that a lot of the wealth ends up in the pockets of the super-rich. But went on: \u201cThis isn\u2019t just an economic failure. It\u2019s a failure of leadership. The people we elected choose to serve the wealthy \u2026 Good leaders put people before profit\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The people workers elect don\u2019t <em>choose<\/em> to serve the wealthy. Capitalism, as a profit-making system that can only work for the profit-takers, <em>obliges<\/em> them to do this. Replacing them with \u201cgood leaders\u201d won\u2019t change things. <\/p>\n<p>What is needed is to realise that no leader can do anything for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-262565","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/262565","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=262565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}