TIL landlords in Glasgow, Scotland tried to increase rent by 25% on women whose husbands were fighting in World War 1. The women organised a rent strike and stopped bailiffs entering their buildings by throwing flour bombs at them and pulling down their trousers. https://ift.tt/GNmA9qL

this effectively just makes strikes illegal and 'offenders' subject to heavy fines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebLsMSaZCkM

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'Ukrainians ahead of me, Ukrainians behind me, and here I am about to die in the middle.' -Putin's canonfodder

TIL that Friedrich Engels had a famously strong libido. He had numerous affairs and, despite his condemnation of prostitution as "exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie", also paid for sex. In 1846, he wrote to Marx that "if there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living". https://ift.tt/J5ezgy8

TIL Civil War Union General August Willich publicly challenged Karl Marx to a duel because he thought Marx was too Conservative. https://ift.tt/0SPC7Y2

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