It sees itself as "an information system to leftist politics and social movements in the internet".
It is one of the oldest German organisations of left groups and for initiatives-based websites.
Since 2006, new entries were largely adjusted and a manifesto against retention was published in October 2008.
In particular, the magazines Radikale Zeiten, the "Rote Hilfe Zeitung", Gegendruck, Zeck and Interim were collected electronically.
The Hamburg-based news portal was used, according to the Annual Report of the State Office for the Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia 2004, by left-wing extremists and is referred to as "the oldest left-wing extremist portal".