In this issue, Manlio Argueta investigates how the ‘literature of liberation’ arose.
Central America
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CATEGORY: Magazine
Against the ideology of silence
In this issue, Index publishes a piece by Jacobo Timerman, a distinguished newspaper editor, who outlines threats to human rights and freedom of expression.
10th year
In this issue, Index publishes submissions from writers including Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Arthur Miller.
Scholarship and its enemies
In this issue, Index explores varieties of academic censorship in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, the West, Czechoslovakia and the USSR.
Banned films
In this issue, Index explores film censorship in the West, Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa
Iran: Revolution – yes, Freedom – no
In this issue, Leila Saeed investigates the results of the 1979 revolution in Iran and what it means for freedom under the Shah.
China: The Peking spring
In this issue, Index publishes excerpts from Wei Jinsheng’s unfinished autobiographical account of the ‘Great Cultural Revolution.’
A New Order?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Hugh Lunghi Over thirty years ago, in 1946, the United Nations solemnly resolved that 'freedom of information is a fundamental human right and the touchstone of all the freedoms'. The newborn UN Educational,...
UNESCO’s threat to press freedom
The concept of a free press and the press as a tool of government will be formally resumed by UNESCO. Journalists Frank Barber and Raphael Mergui discuss.
Libya: Criticise & be killed
In this issue, Index investigates repression in Libya and abroad.
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.