In this issue. Index on Censorship magazine explores the freedom of expression in the post-communist world and the new pressures on it.
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Russia’s choice
Index on Censorship magazine looks at how ready Russia is for the destabilising and subversive election debate that is necessary to the democratic process
Window on Ireland
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the “Troubles”, the long and bitter conflict in Northern Ireland.
End of a multicultural world
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the conflict in Bosnia: the pornographic documentation of grief and the betrayal of multiculturalism.
150 Indexes
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine marks its 21st birthday and 150th issue.
Thailand: Journalists in the firing line
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine looks at Thailand’s state of free expression a year after protesters were shot by government forces.
Stand on your guard
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Andrew Graham Yooll Britain has the best press in the world; or, if not the best, near enough the top. Its...
Belarus and Ukraine
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine looks at efforts by Belarus and Ukraine to forge a post-Soviet identity through language and literature
Technology bytes back
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine looks at the problems posed by the spread of computers and the information overload.
Sex and violence
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the state of women’s rights and censorship in the USA.
A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine has published oppressed writers and refused to be silenced across hundreds of issues.
The brainchild of the poet Stephen Spender, and translator Michael Scammell, the magazine’s very first issue included a never-before-published poem, written while serving a sentence in a labour camp, by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who went on to win a Nobel prize later that year.
The magazine continued to be a thorn in the side of Soviet censors, but its scope was far wider. From the beginning, Index declared its mission to stand up for free expression as a fundamental human right for people everywhere – it was particularly vocal in its coverage of the oppressive military regimes of southern Europe and Latin America but was also clear that freedom of expression was not only a problem in faraway dictatorships. The winter 1979 issue, for example, reported on a controversy in the United States in which the Public Broadcasting Service had heavily edited a documentary about racism in Britain and then gone to court attempting to prevent screenings of the original version. Learn more.