London-based members of the Social History Society are invited to join an evening with Taj Ali, historian and journalist, to celebrate the launch of his new book, Come what may, we’re here to stay: The story of South Asian resistance in Britain.

This book tells the inspirational story of how the South Asian community organised against racism in the past and how it continues to fight in the present. The 1970s and 1980s saw the community grappling with prejudice in the workplace and violence in the streets. But this history is deeper than you might think, from students agitating for independence at the heart of the British Empire to seafarers organising global strikes on the eve of the Second World War.As racism rears its ugly head again, Come what may, we’re here to stay asks: are we are doomed to repeat the past or will we learn from our mistakes and build a better world together?

Taj Ali is the former editor of Tribune and regularly appears as a commentator on the BBC, as well as contributing to the Guardian, Hyphen, Al Jazeera English and others. In 2025 he set up Anti-Racist Radar, an organisation that monitors and reports on racist attacks in the UK. For his work on hate crime and Islamophobia he was chosen as a finalist for the 2026 Orwell Prize.

Here’s the link to purchase tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-taj-ali-gower-st-tickets-1993011712683