{"id":264796,"date":"2026-07-15T10:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=264796"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:46:12","slug":"ann-widdecombe","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/ann-widdecombe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Widdecombe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red faces in the Socialist Workers Party after their tweet on X in response to the death of Widdecombe was &#8216;Hooray, she&#8217;s dead&#8217;, followed by immediate deletion as furore swept the media. Some even confused the SWP with us.<\/p>\n<p>So we should point out that, while we oppose capitalism and all its works, and urge the world&#8217;s people to establish a post-capitalist society of democratic common ownership, we have no truck with the SWP\u2019s infantile reaction to the death (probably murder) of a pro-capitalist politician, however detestable that person\u2019s opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Capitalism is a worldwide system of private property and market trading, which can only be replaced at a worldwide scale by a conscious and informed majority, not by targeting individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-264796","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/264796","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=264796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}