The organisation currently has a particular profile in Dundee, and also has members and supporters in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Fife, southwest Scotland, and other parts of the country.
It aims to "engage in practical activities that help push forward a transformational politics that reflects the reality of people's experience and their hopes for a different kind of society based on radical, feminist and green principles".
This involved an agreed separation from the UK-wide Democratic Left, which subsequently merged into the London-based campaigning organisation Unlock Democracy.
It publishes occasional pamphlets, including one by Neal Ascherson on the life and work of Tom Nairn: Painting Nationalism Red?
(This 2018 publication marked the presentation to Dundee City Council of a portrait of Nairn by Sandy Moffat, which was commissioned by DLS).