I’ve been too busy to post on a lot of things I’ve noticed so I thought I’d just post some quick links.

* One measure of the death toll in the wars launched by Saddam and then by Bush is the number of Iraqi widows, estimated at between one and two million. Widows are largely excluded from paid work and many are in a desperate position.

* What have the unions ever done for us (Via Eric Lee at Labourstart

* Finally, some real progress in the struggle against malaria.