It was founded by Şevket Doğan Tarkan and his friends from Trotskyist journal Socialist Worker in 1997.

The group had links to far-left Kurtuluş Hareketi (Liberation Movement) before the 1980 Turkish coup d'état.

At the 2007 elections, they declared support for the independent candidates of Democratic Society Party.

The party voted "yes" in the 2010 Turkish constitutional referendum as part of the Yetmez Ama Evet ("Not Enough but Yes") campaign.

[2] Lawyer Mücteba Kılıç, a member of the DSİP who was once on the agenda with the Young Civilians Initiative, was detained within the scope of the 'FETÖ' operation in 2016.