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2 Critical Soc. Pol'y 4 (1982)

handle is hein.journals/critsplcy2 and id is 1 raw text is: Notes on this issue Critical Social Policy has survived its first year and now has a substantial readership among the academic social science community and a smaller but important one among both employees of social service and allied departments and generally among socialists, feminists, and other radicals who are concerned about the possibilities of furthering the struggle for transformed socialist welfare services. CSP is also beginning to attract an international readership which finds reflection in the introduction into this anniversary issue of an'international' article. In future each issue will contain either an article written outside the UK, or one focusing on welfare policy in an international context. The first article is Moving right out of welfare- and the way back by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose. It focuses on the particular Thatcherite solution to the crisis in Britain as it affects social welfare. The authors analyse the growth of the new right and in particular the success gained by its reliance on sociobiology - (its appeal to human nature to justify restructuring the welfare services away from the state provision towards those of the market and the family) in terms of the failure of the left to go beyond a defence of the welfare state. This defence did not match people's lived experiences of welfare whereas the new sociobiology matched human concerns more closely. The article argues that only a transformatory vision of social welfare can take on the new right on the ideological terrain. This vision must grow out of feminism and the humanistic tradition of Marx as interpreted, for example, by Heller. A radical theory of human need is central to this, it is argued. The second article examines the limitations to and possibilities for a radical social work practice. Jeff Hearn's article Radical social work - contradictions, limitations and politicalpossibilities presents a framework for analysing the social limitations that can lead to the deradicalisation of radical social work. It discusses also the 'problematic' relationship ofmarxism and social work and concludes with the argument that a more fruitful basis for a radical social work practice might be feminism. This article is published with a rejoinder by Phil Lee, The wrong place and the wrong time - maybe. It is hoped that this will stimulate a debate in the pages of Critical SocialPolicy about the current state of and possibilities for radical social work. Next comes a further contribution to the council house sales debate in the form of a short article by Michael Harloe entitled Towards the decommodification ofhousing? A comment on council house sales. The last piece in the articles section is the first ofCSP's 'international' articles. It is by Vicente Navarro and entitled The crisis ofthe international capitalist order and its implications for the welfare state. It is an encyclopaedic survey and analysis of the international capitalist crisis and its impact on welfare policy in a large number of Western and Third World countries. It notes the adoption by a number of capitalist governments of mainly market but sometimes corporatist solutions to the crisis. The article is well documented with a particularly devastating summary of the impact of Reagan's public expenditure and tax policy on welfare programmes in the USA. The Struggles in the welfare state section of the journal is a piece on being a housing aid worker which pursues some of the themes discussed by Jeff Hearn in a different context The problems encountered in the attempt to be radical in this setting are analysed. The Commentary on socialpolicy section includes an examination of USA social policy developments under Reagan. This is a useful factual complement to the 4

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