The website, which runs largely on donations from members, is headquartered in a residential building, and has expressed support for labor movements,[1] including the workers in the Tonghua Iron and Steel Group riot.

There was no room for leftist discourse in the online mainstream media due to official censorship, and the marketization and concerted marginalization efforts of liberal and neoliberal intellectuals.

After the downfall of Bo Xilai, former CCP Secretary of Chongqing, a number of Chinese leftist websites were suspended again, including the Flag and the Utopia.

[7][8] According to Zhang Xiaojin, an associate dean of international studies at People's University, "the State Council and Beijing Information Offices recently convened a meeting of Internet monitors to discuss tight control of seven websites," among which were "two ultra-left sites, Utopia and Maoflag.

[12] The Economist described the Utopia and the website as "the online inheritors of an orthodox tradition that traces its origins back to the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 when party hardliners founded journals extolling the virtues of old-style communism.