The London Years by Rudolf Rocker

The London Years by Rudolf Rocker

Rudolf Rocker, a German Catholic fleeing political persecution, moved to London to become the acknowledged leader of the Yiddish-speaking Jewish anarchists. There, at a time of mass immigration by impoverished Jews--persecuted by a right-wing press and an anti-alien movement--he organized demonstrations of up to 25,000 against the contemporary Russian pogroms. Rocker established the Jewish Bakers Union in a community action where housewives would only buy union label bread, and most famously, in 1912, organized a general strike of Jewish tailors, which abolished the sweatshop system. The London Years is the autobiography of a remarkable man and chronicles this vanished world.

Rudolf Rocker, the main theorist of anarcho-syndicalism, edited numerous Yiddish political and cultural journals.

Rudolf Rocker was a key figure in the international anarchist movement from 1873 to 1958. For more than half a century, Rocker has been politically active in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States, where he helped create several significant anarchist groups. He became one of the most well-known proponents of liberty and freedom as a result of his prolific lectures and writings. The most accessible of his publications, Anarcho-Syndicalism, was initially published in 1938 and is now considered a classic review of anarchism at a vital juncture in international politics.