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www.currentaffairs.org/2019/11/why-you-should-take-a-chance-on-the-socialist

"Bernie 2020 is running a working class left-wing campaign, clearly aimed at governing from the streets, not in the backrooms of Washington or in Martha’s Vineyard."

Also, Sanders ha recently surpassed 5 Million Individual Contribution (source) and has closed the year with the most donations of any candidate in history at this point in a presidential campaign (source)
"As we enter a new decade and go into the 11th year since the end of the last global slump, these are the fundamental factors that suggest a new slump is not far away. They are: stagnant or falling profits and profitability; weak or falling investment; rising corporate debt and falling trade (amid a global trade war)."

thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/12/30/forecast-2020/
The 1945 Labour Manifesto that defeated Churchill

"Does freedom for the profiteer mean freedom for the ordinary man and woman, whether they be wage-earners or small business or professional men or housewives? Just think back over the depressions of the 20 years between the wars, when there were precious few public controls of any kind and the Big Interests had things all their own way. Never was so much injury done to so many by so few. Freedom is not an abstract thing. To be real it must be won, it must be worked for."

"The Labour Party stands for freedom - for freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom of the Press. The Labour Party will see to it that we keep and enlarge these freedoms, and that we enjoy again the personal civil liberties we have, of our own free will, sacrificed to win the war. The freedom of the Trade Unions, denied by the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1927, must also be restored. But there are certain so-called freedoms that Labour will not tolerate: freedom to exploit other people; freedom to pay poor wages and to push up prices for selfish profit; freedom to deprive the people of the means of living full, happy, healthy lives. "

"The Labour Party is a Socialist Party, and proud of it. Its ultimate purpose at home is the establishment of the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain - free, democratic, efficient, progressive, public-spirited [...]."

www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1945/1945-labour-manifesto.shtml
"Transformation of the state apparatus tending toward the withering away of the State can rest only on increased intervention of the popular masses in the State: certainly through their trade-union and political forms of representation, but also through their own initiatives within the State itself. This process should be accompanied with the development of new forms of direct, rank-and-file democracy, and the flowering of self-management networks and centres."

https://marxistsociology.org/2019/11/states-and-stakes-relational-theory-and-the-politics-of-class-struggle/
Can Capitalism Be Truly Democratic.pdf
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"The inherent logic of free market mechanisms poses a threat to democracy while the extension
of democracy would inevitably limit the freedom of the market, and put sand in the gears of capi-
tal accumulation."
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crimethinc.com/videos/roses-on-my-table

"This documentary short tells the story of the Wingnut Anarchist Collective in Richmond, VA, an organizing group and cooperative living space aimed at fostering mutual aid and grassroots resistance to authority"

I suggest you to take a look at the entire "videos" section (here), they have some interesting documentaries, apart from Roses on My Table:
- Breaking the Spell. which talks about the 1999 protests in Seattle against the WTO
- The Chicago Conspiracy, which is about the legacy of Pinochet's regime
- The Miami Model, that documents the resistance against paramilitary oppression
- pickAxe, a document on grassroots direct action to achieve victory against the forces of government and big business
- END:CIV, which is about climate change

p.s: Some of these videos are also in Spanish!
"...The transitory government continues to extend their hold on power, in defiance of the constitution which states that elections should to be held within ninety days after November 12. A resolution passed on November 26 meant that a new electoral authority would be created within 20 days and elections within 120 days after that. However, on 3 January it was announced that elections would finally take place in May 2020 — a whole six months after Áñez declared herself President. She represents a party that received just 4% of the vote in the elections."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/07/period-of-calm-obscures-deepening-crisis-of-democracy-in-bolivia/