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21 Critical Soc. Pol'y 5 (2001)

handle is hein.journals/critsplcy21 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial With this issue CSP publishes a new editorial statement for the new millennium. This does not signify radical change in the form and content of the journal. It is an update which reflects the changing times. The purpose of such a statement is to indicate to readers and contributors that the Editorial Collective has a distinct and inclusive position on the aims of the journal. It may be worth describing briefly the context and the evolution of our editorial view. CSP was conceived at the end of the 1970s by a group of socialists and socialist feminists, who tried to address the issues facing 'practi- tioners' in the welfare state-workers and users alike-as well as addressing the academic audience. The 1970s had witnessed an up- surge of welfare movements which challenged Labourism and One Nation Toryism, including trade union activism among public service workers and professionals, the anti-Nazi struggles, squatting, occupa- tion of closing hospitals, the Women's Liberation Movement and so on. These challenges were reflected in the academic study of social policy with the publication of Marxist and socialist feminist critiques of British social policy. The 1970s ended with the shock of the election of the first Thatcher government, which was immediately recognized as a huge defeat for the left and a setback for the 'new' and 'old' social movements. The original editorial statement published in the first issue in the summer of 1981 therefore began with two discourses very much in its sights-Fabianism and the New Right. Fabianism was a convenient label for the gradualism and reformism associated with the post war welfare state, which had failed to reduce poverty and class inequality, had underinvested in public services and had not addressed with sufficient vigour the needs and oppressions of many groups, particu- larly women and ethnic minorities. The rise of the New Right was correctly understood as a significantly greater threat to social justice and social welfare. The original editorial statement also made a com- mitment to 'encourage contributions from a plurality of perspectives', which meant going well beyond the 'class analysis' of the Marxist and socialist conventions, to include policy analysis inspired by non- socialist feminism, the gay and lesbian movement, the green move- ment, anti-racism and the movements of disabled people, for example. Copyright @ 2001 Critical Social Policy Ltd 66 0261-1083(200102) 21:1 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi), Vol. 21(1): 5-6; 015832. 5

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