In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores censorship in Morocco, Tunisia, Syria, and Israel.
Middle East: Algeria erupts
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CATEGORY: Magazine
Brazil: New constitution, slavery, Mino Carta
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the right of Africans to choose their rulers and establish a system of holding them accountable.
Eastern Europe: Politics v culture
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the right of Africans to choose their rulers and establish a system of holding them accountable.
WHY BRITAIN?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] by Matthew Hoffman At a party not long ago, I met a man who told me that he had been trying to write a script for broadcast on one of the foreign services to Eastern Europe. His job was to try to explain why the...
Britain: Liberty is ill
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the right of Africans to choose their rulers and establish a system of holding them accountable.
Africa: Wole Soyinka on power
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the right of Africans to choose their rulers and establish a system of holding them accountable.
China: Weeding out the gang of four
In this issue, Index on Censorship explores wide ranging censorship of books, films, and speeches related to the ‘Gang of Four’ in China.
100th Issue
In this issue, Index on Censorship explores its role in supporting writers, scholars, and artists in the Soviet Union today and defending their right to freedom of expression.
Josef Lada: Wall calendars
In this issue, Index on Censorship explores the difference between the degrees of freedom of expression and censorship in Czechoslovakia over a decade.
Vaclav Havel: Stories & totalitarianism
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores totalitarianism and destruction of the story as the basic instrument of human knowledge and self-knowledge.
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.