David Martin (22 December1915 - 1 July1997), known as a Australian poet, was born Lajos or Ludwig Detsinyi, into a Jewish family in Hungary (then part of Austro-Hungary). He used as well the names Louis Adam and Louis Destiny. He also wrote novels and short stories, and plays.
He was brought up in Germany, where he first became a communist at age 17. He then worked in the Netherlands, and emigrated to Palestine. He fought in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, writing about this in My Strange Friend (1991); and then worked for the BBC in London from 1938. After World War II he settled in Australia from 1950, making his mark with the satirical poem Rob the Robber (1954).
From 1935 to the 1960s it occupied leadership positions in a number of important trade unions, and was at centre of many major industrial conflicts.
Many of its members played leading roles in Australian cultural life, such as the novelists Katharine Susannah Prichard, Judah Waten, Frank Hardy, Eric Lambert and Alan Marshall, the painter Noel Counihan and the poetDavidMartin.
In some ways the negative influence of the Communist Party was more important than anything the party itself did.
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