Why it was banned
Emile Burns's 1935 anthology of Marxist writings, banned in New Zealand during the Second World War as seditious or politically dangerous under the Indecent Publications Act. Part of a wave of left-wing and communist publications prohibited in New Zealand in the late 1930s and 1940s.
Bans
| Country | Year | Reasons | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 1935lifted | Political | ||
| Classified as objectionable under the New Zealand Indecent Publications Act 1963. The Act was superseded by the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993; classification status treated as historical. | ||||