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5 Critical Soc. Pol'y 4 (1985)

handle is hein.journals/critsplcy5 and id is 1 raw text is: Notes on this issue Issue 13 has been published slightly later than usual. In order to have the issue we wanted the collective decided to defer publication until after our annual conference which took place from 19th to 21st of April in London. The conference attracted around 400 people and was deemed a success by those who attended. We hope that some of the papers contributed will be written- up for publication in future issues of the journal. In the current issue two of the articles address the structural racism of the welfare state. In Race, empire and the welfare state, Sidney Jacobs argues that views of white superiority from the 'age of empire' were built into the welfare state from the beginning. Council housing was never intended for immigrants and the racism in current provision is not an accident of faulty allocation procedures but the logical outcome of the racist beliefs at the core of the welfare state. Steve Cohen, in Anti-semitism, immigration controls and the welfare state locates contemporary racism in the context of anti-semitism pursued by both left and right at the turn of the century. The exclusion of Jewish immigrants from welfare benefits consolidated in the 1905 Aliens Act set the ground for contemporary attacks on black immigrants. Housing, class and health, by the Health Care Research Team at Durham University is something of a departure from the usual run of articles published by CSP. After lengthy discussion the collective decided that it was important to publish an article which attempted to set out the problems of doing socialist research and felt that it would be of interest to a wider audience than methodologists alone. In Socialist security, Pete Alcock takes a timely look at the various proposals for social security reform and sets out some suggestions for a socialist response. The collective would welcome responses and contributions in this area. The Struggles in the welfare state section carries accounts of the campaign to save Croxteth Comprehensive and the important role played by local working class organisations in the struggle, and the way in which YTS schemes continue to ghettoise women trainees into traditional female occupational training. In the Commentary on social policy section Nigel Parton argues that if we are to make sense of contemporary debates about child care we must funda- mentally rethink the day-to-day relationship between the family and the state. In Let them eat cake, Tim Lang argues that the popular middle class concern about the over-consumption of sugar, fat etc, hides the very real problem of underconsumption and lack of nutrition in the diet of many people currently living on low incomes or in poverty. In Watching thepolice, Tony Jefferson and Jan Smith argue that the nature of police monitoring organisations is crucial and stress the need for community support and parti- cipation in any moves to make the police democratically accountable.

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