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MARY BARBOUR, as no doubt many readers of the Morning Star will know, was leader of the rent strikes in Glasgow in 1915.
At its peak 20,000 Glaswegians, women and men, workers and community activists, took to the streets.
Such was the show of working-class unity that prime minister Lloyd George was forced to introduce the Rent Restriction Act.
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