{"id":266515,"date":"2026-10-08T21:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=266515"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:21:24","slug":"pivotal-moment-for-burnham","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/pivotal-moment-for-burnham\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivotal moment for Burnham?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westminster watchers were glued to the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, and none more so than new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, after a Conference speech laying out his &#8216;vision&#8217; of undoing 40 years of Thatcherite privatisation and &#8216;wrong turns&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Will he call a snap general election to secure a popular mandate for this vision? The Tories are nowhere, the far-right divided and mired in scandal, and the Greens have arguably damaged their prospects by passing a resolution that Zionism is racist.<\/p>\n<p>Thrilling stuff, if you like domestic soap operas. But capitalism will continue regardless, just as socialists continue working for its abolition. Because only then will anything really change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-266515","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/266515","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=266515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}