John Sendy

John Alan Sendy (1 June 1924 – 4 August 2004) was an Australian communist activist.

Sendy joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1942.

[1] He was a committed activist for many years in South Australia and Victoria, serving on the National Councils and studying communist theory in China and the Soviet Union.

[3] Sendy left the Communist Party in 1974 as part of the turmoil of that decade over the increasing brutality of Stalinism eventually exacerbated by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[4] In his retirement Sendy focused on writing and released an autobiography, Comrades Come Rally!