46-477: Polish League may refer to: Polish League Against Defamation , a right-wing nationalist non-governmental organization founded in 2013 Polish League Cup (1999–2002) , a football competition Polish League Cup (1977–1978) , a football competition Polish Basketball League , founded in 1995 Polish Volleyball League ( PlusLiga ), founded in 2000 See also [ edit ] National League (Poland, 1893) ,
92-591: A Polish right-wing political organisation that disbanded in 1928 National League (Poland, 2007) , a Polish far-right minor political party Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Polish League . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polish_League&oldid=1153874908 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
138-614: A first translation of his one act play Conversation , and a letter to Czech officials on police censorship of his December 1975 production of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay . The magazine also carried articles on the state of the Czech theatre and a list of the so-called Padlock Publications, 50 banned books that circulated only in typescript. Index also published an English version of Havel's play Mistake , dedicated to Samuel Beckett in gratitude for Beckett's own dedication of his play Catastrophe to Havel. Both short plays were performed at
184-553: A group of friends representing no organisation, support your statement, admire your courage, think of you and will help in any way possible.” Among the other 15 British and US signatories were the poet W. H. Auden , philosopher A. J. Ayer , musician Yehudi Menuhin , man of letters J. B. Priestley , actor Paul Scofield , sculptor Henry Moore , philosopher Bertrand Russell , writer Mary McCarthy and composer Igor Stravinsky . Later that year, on 25 August, Bogoraz, Litvinov and five others demonstrated on Red Square against
230-418: A matter of impassioned debate; and it is one which does not only concern totalitarian societies." Accordingly, the magazine has sought to shed light on other challenges facing free expression, including religious extremism, the rise of nationalism, and internet censorship. Issues are usually organised by theme, and contain a country-by-country list of recent cases involving censorship, restrictions on freedom of
276-655: A member of the advisory board of Index on Censorship in 1978 and remains connected to the publication as a Patron of Index . Index on Censorship published the World Statement by the International Committee for the Defence of Salman Rushdie in support of "the right of all people to express their ideas and beliefs and to discuss them with their critics on the basis of mutual tolerance, free from censorship, intimidation and violence. Six months later, Index published
322-567: A programme involving artists from refugee and migrant communities in UK, linking with artists from their country of origin, Imagine art after , exhibited at Tate Britain in 2007. Index has also worked with Burmese exiled artists and publishers on creating a programme in support of the collective efforts of Burma's creative community. Index also commissioned a new play by Actors for Human Rights, Seven Years With Hard Labour , weaving together four accounts from former Burmese political prisoners now living in
368-544: A programme of UK based and international projects that put the organisation's philosophy into practice. In 2009 and 2010 Index on Censorship worked in Afghanistan, Burma, Iraq, Tunisia and many other countries, in support of journalists, broadcasters, artists and writers who work against a backdrop of intimidation, repression, and censorship. The organisation's arts' programmes investigate the impact of current and recent social and political change on arts practitioners, assessing
414-578: A round-up of abuses of freedom of expression worldwide, was published in the magazine until December 2008. While the original inspiration to create Index came from Soviet dissidents, from its outset the magazine covered censorship in right-wing dictatorships then ruling Greece and Portugal, the military regimes of Latin America, and the Soviet Union and its satellites. The magazine has covered other challenges facing free expression, including religious extremism,
460-423: A standing apology for the opacity of its title." Describing the organisation's objectives at its inception, Stuart Hampshire said: "the tyrant's concealments of oppression and of absolute cruelty should always be challenged. There should be noise of publicity outside every detention centre and concentration camp and a published record of every tyrannical denial of free expression." Index on Censorship magazine
506-502: Is a "nationalist organization close to Poland’s government". Index on Censorship , has described the organization as a "campaign group close to the ruling Polish party", as did The Guardian . The Jewish Telegraphic Agency described the League as a "right-wing Polish group". According to Haaretz it is an "independent organization considered close to Poland’s right-wing, nationalist government". Argentine newspaper Pagina/12 called
SECTION 10
#1732851180763552-546: Is also a partner with Eurozine , a network of more than 60 European cultural journals. Other landmark publications include Ken Saro-Wiwa 's writings from prison (Issue 3/1997) and a translation of the Czechoslovak Charter 77 manifesto drafted by Václav Havel and others in Issue 3/1977. Index published the first English translation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn 's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Index on Censorship published
598-494: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Polish League Against Defamation The Polish League Against Defamation ( Polish : Fundacja Reduta Dobrego Imienia – Polska Liga Przeciw Zniesławieniom , lit. 'Good Name Redoubt – Polish League Against Defamation') is a right-wing nationalist non-governmental organization based in Warsaw , Poland . It
644-453: Is presented as a ‘villain'" in the documentary series Rotten , which briefly mentions antibiotics in Polish honey. Index on Censorship Index on Censorship is an organisation campaigning for freedom of expression . It produces a quarterly magazine of the same name from London. It is directed by the non-profit-making Writers and Scholars International, Ltd (WSI) in association with
690-547: The Glasnost Defence Foundation . Since January 2010 it has been published by SAGE Publications , an independent for-profit academic publisher. Between 2005 and 2009, the magazine was published and distributed by Routledge , part of the Taylor & Francis group. In addition to print and annual subscriptions, Index on Censorship is available on Exact Editions , an application for the iPhone/iPad and Android. It
736-718: The Hunger Strike Declaration from four student leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 , Liu Xiaobo , Zhou Duo , Hou Dejian and Gao Xin. Index Index , a round-up of abuses of freedom of expression worldwide, continued to be published in each edition of the magazine until December 2008, when this function was transferred to the website. The offences against free expression documented in that first issue's Index Index listing included censorship in Greece and Spain, then dictatorships, and Brazil, which had just banned
782-685: The invasion of Czechoslovakia . A few weeks before, Litvinov sent Spender a letter (translated and published several years later in the first May 1972 issue of Index ). He suggested that a regular publication might be set up in the West "to provide information to world public opinion about the real state of affairs in the USSR". Spender and his colleagues, Stuart Hampshire, David Astor, Edward Crankshaw and founding editor Michael Scammell decided, like Amnesty International, to cast their net wider. They wished to document patterns of censorship in right-wing dictatorships —
828-581: The CPJ. Index on Censorship annually presents awards to journalists, artists, campaigners and digital activists from around the world who make a significant contribution to free expression over the previous year. Sponsors have included The Guardian , Google , SAGE Publications and the London law firm Doughty Street Chambers . The 2020 awards were held online in April 2020 during the 2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic . In 2022,
874-491: The Free Word Centre to mark the launch of Index's special issue looking back at the changes of 1989 (Issue 4, 2009). Index has been the driving force in the UK in the campaign to "StopSLAPPs", strategic lawsuits against public participation. As a result of their campaigning, in 2024 a private members bill was tabled. Free Speech is not For Sale , a joint campaign report by Index on Censorship and English PEN highlighted
920-473: The League "a far-right organization". Following the international release of the 2013 Polish film Ida , the league called for the film to carry title cards stating that Poland was under German occupation during the events depicted. More than 40,000 people signed a petition organized by the league criticizing Ida' s supposed inaccuracies and anti-Polish bias. The film's director called the demands "absurd", "too silly to comment on", and "a stream of hatred from
966-406: The League acts through lobbying, publishing ads, open letters as well as articles which emphasize Poland's role in fighting against Nazi Germany during World War II. The Daily Telegraph , The Times of Israel , The Jewish Chronicle , and The Jerusalem Post have described the organization as "nationalist". According to Amnesty International's Poland researcher Barbora Černušáková, it
SECTION 20
#17328511807631012-611: The League staged a protest in front of the Russian Embassy in Warsaw against the Russian government's denial of responsibility for the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union in occupied Poland . The protest was attended by several hundred people including civil rights organizations such as Euromaidan from Ukraine and Solidarność Walcząca . According to the League's founder Maciej Świrski,
1058-568: The Soviet Union's Censor's Index ; and apartheid South Africa's Jacobsens Index of Objectionable Literature . Scammell later admitted that the words "on censorship" were added as an afterthought when it was realised that the reference would not be clear to many readers. "Panicking, we hastily added the words 'on Censorship' as a subtitle", wrote Scammell in the December 1981 issue of the magazine, "and this it has remained ever since, nagging me with its ungrammaticality (Index of Censorship, surely) and
1104-416: The UK and abroad beginning in 2008. Until then the organisation did not regard itself as "a campaigning organisation in the mould of Article 19 or Amnesty International ", as former news editor Sarah Smith noted in 2001, preferring to use its "understanding of what is newsworthy and politically significant to maintain pressure on oppressive regimes through extensive coverage". Index on Censorship also runs
1150-555: The UK-registered charity Index on Censorship (founded as the Writers and Scholars Educational Trust), which are both chaired by the British television broadcaster, writer and former politician Trevor Phillips . The current CEO is Jemimah Steinfeld. WSI was created by poet Stephen Spender , Oxford philosopher Stuart Hampshire , the publisher and editor of The Observer David Astor , and
1196-492: The UK. Index also co-published a book of poetry by homeless people in London and St. Petersburg. The current Chief Executive of Index on Censorship is Jemimah Steinfeld. She took on this role in May 2024, replacing Ruth Anderson, who left the organisation to follow a political path. The Chief Executive of Index on Censorship from 2014 through to 2020 was Jodie Ginsberg, who is now the CEO of
1242-620: The case as a "highly problematic" precedent which goes against the European Court of Human Rights verdict in Perinçek v. Switzerland (2013) that attempts to enshrine a particular version of history into law and punish those who dissent violate freedom of speech rights guaranteed in Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights . In 2018, Polish Holocaust scholar Jan Grabowski sued
1288-573: The degree and depth of self-censorship. It uses the arts to engage young people directly into the freedom of expression debate. It works with marginalised communities in UK, creating new platforms, on line and actual for creative expression. Index on Censorship works internationally to commission new work, not only articles for print and online, but also new photography, film & video, visual arts and performance. Examples have included an exhibition of photostories produced by women in Iraq, Open Shutters , and
1334-739: The editorship of Jemimah Steinfeld featured investigations into how the UK's royal family censor their archives, the plight of Afghan journalists and the rise of Narendra Modi. The editor before, Rachael Jolley , looked at taboos, the legacy of the Magna Carta and Shakespeare 's legacy in protest. There have been special issues on China, reporting from the Middle East, and on internet censorship. The Russia issue (January 2008) won an Amnesty International Media Award 2008 for features by Russian journalists Fatima Tlisova and Sergei Bachinin , and veteran Russian free speech campaigner Alexei Simonov, founder of
1380-668: The film Zabriskie Point on the grounds that it "insulted a friendly power" – the United States, where it had been made and freely shown. Index on Censorship paid special attention to the situation in then Czechoslovakia between the Soviet invasion of 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989, devoting an entire issue to the country eight years after the Prague Spring (Issue 3/1976). It included several pieces by Václav Havel, including
1426-546: The informal division of labour between the two London-based organisations: "When we received human rights material we forwarded it to Amnesty and when Amnesty received a report of censorship they passed it on to us". Originally, as suggested by Scammell, the magazine was to be called Index , a reference to the lists or indices of banned works that are central to the history of censorship: the Roman Catholic Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Forbidden Books);
Polish League - Misplaced Pages Continue
1472-551: The law being presented to parliament by the Justice ministry. Maciej Świrski brought a lawsuit against Newsweek.pl for a 2017 article in which it referred to the Zgoda concentration camp , operated by Polish authorities after World War II, as a "Polish concentration camp". In 2018, a court ruled in his favor and Newsweek.pl had to publish an apology stating that there was no such thing as Polish concentration camps. Verfassungsblog described
1518-420: The military regimes of Latin America and the dictatorships in Greece, Spain and Portugal — as well as the Soviet Union and its satellites. Meanwhile, in 1971, Amnesty International began to publish English translations of each new issue of A Chronicle of Current Events , which documented human rights abuses in the USSR and included a regular "Samizdat Update". In a recent interview, Michael Scammell explains
1564-553: The organization for libel after it accused him of "falsif[ying] the history of Poland" and "proclaiming the thesis that Poles are complicit in the extermination of Jews" in an open letter. The case, originally scheduled to be heard in May 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In 2019 the league funded a lawsuit against Grabowski and Barbara Engelking , editors of the 2018 Dalej jest noc ("Night Without End"), accusing them of defamation. The court ruled in their favor, but
1610-556: The presence of international observers." (One of the accused Alexander Ginzburg resumed his dissident activities on release from the camps, until expelled from the USSR in 1979; another, the writer Yuri Galanskov , died in a camp in November 1972.) The Times (London) published a translation of the Open Letter and in reply the English poet Stephen Spender composed a brief telegram: “We,
1656-522: The press and other free speech violations. Occasionally, Index on Censorship publishes short works of fiction and poetry by notable new writers as well as censored ones. Over the half century it has been in existence, Index on Censorship has presented works by some of the world's most distinguished writers and thinkers, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , Milan Kundera , Václav Havel , Nadine Gordimer , Salman Rushdie , Doris Lessing , Arthur Miller , Noam Chomsky , and Umberto Eco . Issues under
1702-943: The problem of so-called libel tourism and the English law of defamation's chilling effect on free speech. After much debate surrounding the report's ten key recommendations, the UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw pledged to make English defamation laws fairer. "A free press can't operate or be effective unless it can offer readers comment as well as news. What concerns me is that the current arrangements are being used by big corporations to restrict fair comment, not always by journalists but also by academics." He added: "The very high levels of remuneration for defamation lawyers in Britain seem to be incentivising libel tourism." These campaigns and others were illustrative of then CEO John Kampfner 's strategy, supported by then chair Jonathan Dimbleby, to boost Index's public advocacy profile in
1748-559: The rightist Polish media". The League collected tens of thousands of signatures in order to pass the Amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance , which has been criticized by historians as an attempt to silence discussion of Polish complicity in wartime atrocities. Świrski, who heads the league, was instrumental in passing the bill and was possibly the only person consulted prior to
1794-474: The rise of nationalism, and Internet censorship . In the first issue of May 1972, Stephen Spender wrote: "Obviously there is the risk of a magazine of this kind becoming a bulletin of frustration. However, the material by writers which is censored in Eastern Europe, Greece, South Africa and other countries is among the most exciting that is being written today. Moreover, the question of censorship has become
1840-570: The stories of the " disappeared " in Argentina and the work of banned poets in Cuba ; the work of Chinese poets who escaped the massacres that ended the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 . Index on Censorship has a long history of publishing writers in translation, including Bernard-Henri Lévy , Ivan Klima , Ma Jian and Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi , and news reports including Anna Politkovskaia 's coverage of
1886-582: The war in Chechnya (Issue 2/2002). Tom Stoppard 's play Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1977) is set in a Soviet mental institution and was inspired by the personal account of former detainee Victor Fainberg and Clayton Yeo 's expose of the use of psychiatric abuse in the USSR, published in Index on Censorship (Issue 2, 1975). It was first performed with the London Symphony Orchestra . Stoppard became
Polish League - Misplaced Pages Continue
1932-460: The words of the samizdat periodical A Chronicle of Current Events , they described "the atmosphere of illegality" surrounding the January 1968 trial of Ginzburg and Galanskov and called for "public condemnation of this disgraceful trial, for the punishment of those responsible, the release of the accused from detention and a retrial which would fully conform with the legal regulations and be held in
1978-484: The writer and expert on the Soviet Union Edward Crankshaw . The founding editor of Index on Censorship was the critic and translator Michael Scammell (1972–1981), who still serves as a patron of the organisation. The original impetus for the creation of Index on Censorship came from an Open Letter addressed "To World Public Opinion" by two Soviet dissenters, Pavel Litvinov and Larisa Bogoraz . In
2024-472: Was founded by Michael Scammell in 1972. It supports free expression, publishing distinguished writers from around the world, exposing suppressed stories, initiating debate, and providing an international record of censorship. The quarterly editions of the magazine usually focus on a country or region or a recurring theme in the global free expression debate. Index on Censorship also publishes short works of fiction and poetry by notable new writers. Index Index ,
2070-483: Was founded in 2013 by Maciej Świrski. Critics of the organization argue that its aggressive tactics have the opposite of the intended effect. The stated objectives of the League are to defend the name of Poland and the Polish people against acts of vilification in the international media or historical misrepresentation in the world of politics. For instance, on the 75th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 2014,
2116-577: Was later overruled in an appeal. The League received 280,000 PLN from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to create an internet system and recruit "Internet hussars" to report and take action on alleged anti-Polish statements in foreign media. In 2020, the organization released a 74-page report titled "Opportunities to Prevent Defamation on Netflix-type Streaming Platforms" in which it examined 557 fiction works and 47 documentaries for "anti-Polish" content. The report states that "Polish honey
#762237