"The London Years" is the autobiography of a remarkable man and a window into a long-forgotten world. Rudolf Rocker was a German radical who became the leader of the Yiddish-speaking Jewish anarchists in London. He introduced this mass movement to world literature, organised demonstrations of up to 25,000 against the contemporary Russian progroms, edited Yiddish political and cultural journals and set up Jewish trade unions. Rocker was active at a time of mass immigration by impoverished Jews, who were persecuted by the right-wing press and an "anti-alien" movement which brought in the first immigration controls. Despite this difficult arena Rocker united the tailoring trades in a mass general strike which abolished the sweatshop system in the UK. His movement was brought to an end by Government action thad closed his journals and detained Rocker for years as an "enemy alien", "The London Years chronicles this vanished world.