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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904859224
• ISBN13: 9781904859222
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: AK Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"