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.

This Sunday, on 8th March, is International Women’s Day. More than one-hundred years since the first International Working Women’s day in 1911, what is the situation for women in Britain in today? Seven years after the onslaught of the financial crisis, working class women remain oppressed due to their gender and exploited due to their class.