<DIV><p>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&mdash;persecuted by a right-wing press and an &ldquo;anti-alien&rdquo; movement&mdash;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. <i>The London Years</i> is the autobiography of a remarkable man and chronicles this vanished world.</p><p><b>Rudolf Rocker</b>, the main theorist of anarcho-syndicalism, edited numerous Yiddish political and cultural journals.</p></DIV>