{"id":365713,"date":"2018-06-17T07:12:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T06:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-have-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-class-war-still-exists-its-alive-and-kicking\/"},"modified":"2018-06-17T07:12:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T06:12:32","slug":"i-have-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-class-war-still-exists-its-alive-and-kicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-have-woken-up-to-the-fact-that-class-war-still-exists-its-alive-and-kicking\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI have woken up to the fact that class war still exists, it\u2019s alive and kicking\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>Grenfell Silent Marchers speak<\/h4>\n<h2>\u201cI have woken up to the fact that class war still exists, it\u2019s alive and kicking\u201d<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    our reporters<br \/>\n    <br \/>16 June 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p><em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em> reporters spoke to some of those attending the Silent March on the occasion of the anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire on June 14.<\/p>\n<p>Linda works at a Tesco\u2019s supermarket in London. She said, \u201cNothing much has progressed in a year for the families. People are still living in hotels and B&amp;Bs. How can you sit there and say to yourself I just want to go somewhere and say, \u2018This is mine\u2019? If you are living in hotels and B&amp;Bs you can\u2019t do that. You haven\u2019t got a proper life back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s bad how it has been dragged out so long. They\u2019ve got no release. They are still having to fight, but they are still grieving. It\u2019s hard for them. We need something sorted as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at Hillsborough [the Sheffield football stadium where 96 Liverpool fans were killed in 1989 as a result of a crush caused by the decisions of the police and authorities]. How many years is that? That could have been avoided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s health and safety issues. The firefighters could only go above so many floors [at Grenfell]. It was in 1974 that it was built. You would think, over the years, they would have said you can have some kind of safety system\u2014outside stairs, sprinklers or something. How much would that have cost? Maybe they would have had a better chance to get out if they had that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patty lives in London and was originally from East Germany. She said, \u201cI\u2019ve lived a fairly sheltered life in the UK. But I grew up in East Germany and there was always talk about socialism and class war, but it always felt stilted and unreal. This is the first time I have woken up to the fact that class war&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/06\/16\/ints-j16.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Grenfell Silent Marchers speak \u201cI have woken up to the fact that class war still exists, it\u2019s alive and kicking\u201d By our reporters 16 June 2018 World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to some of those attending the Silent March on the occasion of the anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire on June 14. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-365713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}