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Pakistan has sealed a deal worth over $4bn to sell military equipment, including warplanes jointly built with China, to General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army, according to a report by Reuters.

The deal could significantly alter the military balance of power in the oil-rich North African country, where Haftar rules over the eastern half and a UN-recognised government led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh in Tripoli controls the west.

A copy of the arms deal seen by Reuters before it was finalised said Haftar's LNA would purchase 16 JF-17 fighter jets, a multirole combat aircraft jointly developed by Pakistan and China, along with 12 Super Mushak trainer aircraft, used for basic pilot training.

One of the Pakistani officials who spoke with Reuters said the agreement would be spread over two and a half years, with land, sea and air equipment included. Two Pakistani officials said the deal could reach up to $4.6bn - Pakistan's largest in history.

Archivists have saved and uploaded copies of the 60 Minutes episode new CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss ordered be shelved as a torrent and multiple file sharing sites after an international distributor aired the episode.

The moves show how difficult it may be for CBS to stop the episode, which focused on the experience of Venezuelans deported to El Salvadorian mega prison CECOT, from spreading across the internet. Bari Weiss stopped the episode from being released Sunday even after the episode was reviewed and checked multiple times by the news outlet, according to an email CBS correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi sent to her colleagues.

Inspired by British and Irish folklore, Hungry Horrors is a deck-builder with an unusual purpose - to have you feed the monsters to keep them away. A demo is still currently available on the Steam page.

I previously played a good amount of this in some of the previews and demo, and really love the idea and setting. Definitely one you need to keep on your watchlist.

Built on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, elementary OS 8.1 has been released just in time for Christmas, and is now available for download, marking the first point update in the 8.x series.

The biggest change is that the Wayland-based Secure Session is now the default, but users can still switch back to the Classic session if needed. Secure Session also brings better authentication dialogs that stop other windows from stealing focus, so there’s less risk of typing passwords in the wrong place.

Multitasking and window management have been refined through continued work on the Dock. Visual indicators for multiple windows have returned, background apps are now visible and manageable, and workspaces can be created, rearranged, and switched directly from the Dock.

Raspberry Pi Imager, a tool that helps users easily write OS images to an SD card for booting a Raspberry Pi, has just released version 2.0.3, now available for download.

A major highlight is enhanced performance visibility during image writing. Raspberry Pi Imager can now detect bottlenecks in real time and clearly indicate whether operations are limited by network speed, decompression, or storage writes.

A detailed timing breakdown has also been added, making it easier to analyze throughput and diagnose slow flashes. When direct I/O is enabled, periodic sync operations are skipped to improve write performance, while async I/O support has been expanded and refined across platforms.

In 1985, Local 1199 members met in Columbus, Ohio for an organizing conference. The members were mostly healthcare and social service workers from states all across the country, but primarily in Appalachian and East Coast states who would later join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

At the conference, the union provided “1199’s Advice to Rookie Organizers.” This handwritten document included 20 tips for organizers, urging them to stay focused on rank-and-file organizers, empower them to organize for themselves, and honestly facilitate their organizing. In the years since, Jane McAlevey popularized the list in her educational and training materials.

I was about to turn 15 when Donald Trump announced his first presidential campaign. I was a listless high schooler with no ambitions and socialist politics I’d picked up from listening to old protest songs on YouTube. Right up to election day, it felt like a joke. The night he won his election, I walked through the dark in my suburban hometown, watched the same news clips playing on every station, and thought that Bernie Sanders must have been right, and that everything would have to change if we were going to stop this.

I knew things would get worse, but the extent of the crisis has been astonishing. In the ten intervening years we’ve seen millions die from COVID, we’ve watched social protections, abortion rights and public services gutted, and we’ve seen our country carry out the greatest moral crime of the 21st century, the genocide in Gaza.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass.

Electoralism is a strategy of electing politicians with the goal of creating political change. From a young age, many of us are indoctrinated to believe voting has great power;our childhoods are filled with lessons and stories about how voting is the way democracy is preserved and political change happens, backed by a sanitized lie that the Civil Rights Movement achieved its ends through the vote and not human struggle itself. Elections have very rarely achieved any meaningful changes for the working class or done any lasting damage to the capitalist system. As Lenin argued in The State and Revolution, “to decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to misrepresent the people in parliament is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism.” Politicians will always be more loyal to preserving the system that safeguards capital rather than liberating the masses, precisely because of their relation to the electoral system of the state, even with professed socialist politics.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass.

The 2025 election cycle has left Boston Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) stronger and better positioned for the future; As far as I see it, this is a fact. Members across the region have pounded the pavement to spread the message of our endorsed candidates, leading to victories or strong showings in every race we ran this cycle.

In the process, too, Boston DSA, and all the zip codes it entails, has built up chapter capacity in meaningful ways and set the stage for even greater future success.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass.

Reflecting back on the 2025 election season, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has major accomplishments for which to be proud.

In a year without federal elections, DSA nonetheless captured lightning in a bottle and secured Zohran Mamdani the Democratic nomination and ultimately the mayoralty in New York City. Locally, meanwhile, Boston DSA nominated four candidates, supporting Willie Burnley, Jr. for Mayor of Somerville, Marcos Candido for Lowell City Council, and Ayah al-Zubi (first) and Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler (second) for Cambridge City Council.