8th March marks International Women’s Day, originally founded over a century ago by socialists to remember the struggles of working class women. Today, we are still a long way from achieving equality between the sexes in the workplace; and with the onset of the crisis in 2008 things have only gotten worse.

As Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership campaign surges forward, his right-wing rivals are scrambling to find ways of defeating him. For Cooper and Kendall, one of the latest tactics is an attempt to appeal to female voters on the basis of their “feminist credentials”. Despite this, Corbyn is predicted to get 61% of first preferences from women.

To celebrate International Working Women’s Day 2015, Natasha Sorrell from the Sheffield Marxists discusses women’s role in revolution throughout history. Alongside Natasha’s talk, we reproduce several quotations from Lenin, Kollontai and others on the same subject.