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

Communist Party of Australia The Communist Party of Australia (CPA), known as the Australian Communist Party (ACP) from 1944 to 1951, was an Australian political party founded in 1920. The party existed until roughly 1991, with its membership and influence having been i ...

in 1942. He was a committed activist for many years in South Australia and Victoria, serving on the National Councils and studying communist theory in

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and the

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. From 1972 to 1974 he was national president of the Communist Party. Sendy left the Communist Party in 1974 as part of the turmoil of that decade over the increasing brutality of

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eventually exacerbated by the Soviet invasion of

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. In his retirement Sendy focused on writing and released an autobiography, ''Comrades Come Rally! Recollections of an Australian Communist'', in 1978. He died in 2004.

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