![Joan McAlpine on Twitter: "This is what a statue to a great feminist pioneer should look like. Rent strike leader and social justice campaigner Mary Barbour in Govan, Glasgow #MaryWollstonecraft https://t.co/oygUdr1eOg" / Joan McAlpine on Twitter: "This is what a statue to a great feminist pioneer should look like. Rent strike leader and social justice campaigner Mary Barbour in Govan, Glasgow #MaryWollstonecraft https://t.co/oygUdr1eOg" /](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmeOWUUXUAAGt2R.jpg)
Joan McAlpine on Twitter: "This is what a statue to a great feminist pioneer should look like. Rent strike leader and social justice campaigner Mary Barbour in Govan, Glasgow #MaryWollstonecraft https://t.co/oygUdr1eOg" /
![Thousands of Glasgow women took to the streets to fight soaring rents 106 years ago today - Glasgow Live Thousands of Glasgow women took to the streets to fight soaring rents 106 years ago today - Glasgow Live](https://i2-prod.glasgowlive.co.uk/incoming/article21648297.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/0_h_00116316.jpg)
Thousands of Glasgow women took to the streets to fight soaring rents 106 years ago today - Glasgow Live
The new statue to Mary Barbour (1875-1958) the remarkable leader of a womens' mass movement of rent strikes in 1915 in Glasgow, Scotland, when landlords sought to profit while the men were
![Statue of Mary Barbour. Organiser of the Rent Strikes in 1915. Stood for election as a Labour candidate. One of the first woman councillors in Glasgow Stock Photo - Alamy Statue of Mary Barbour. Organiser of the Rent Strikes in 1915. Stood for election as a Labour candidate. One of the first woman councillors in Glasgow Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/M7XB98/statue-of-mary-barbour-organiser-of-the-rent-strikes-in-1915-stood-M7XB98.jpg)