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It’s totally necessary that we organise together to take on the issues of the housing crisis

SCOTLAND is no stranger to housing activism.

This March saw the unveiling of a sculpture commemorating the legendary Glasgow radical Mary Barbour. In 1915 unscrupulous landlords were taking advantage of the wartime economy — pushing up rents as thousands of workers flocked to Glasgow’s shipyards and munitions factories.

Barbour led a 20,000-strong rent strike in what was then the British empire’s second city.

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