Supporting Irish republicanism was central to the work of the party . In 1978 , it organised the Smash the Prevention of Terrorism Act Campaign and held protests outside police stations where suspects were held . The party organised a conference of trade unionists opposed to Northern Ireland being part of the United Kingdom in Coventry in 1981 and later that year held a march to the TUC conference , the Workers March for Irish Freedom . On Saturday 6 February 1982 , the Irish Freedom Movement ( IFM ) was founded at a meeting in Caxton House , Archway and TUC general secretary Len Murray wrote to the thirteen trades councils that sponsored the conference threatening them with disaffiliation if they attended . Mick Hume , who edited '' The Next Step '' , recalls that the IFM were accused of complicity in the 1984 bombing of the Conservative Party conference . The IFM published a quarterly bulletin '' Irish Freedom '' and organised an annual march on the anniversary of internment . When the voices of Sinn Féin supporters were banned from the British broadcast media , '' Living Marxism '' carried a front page interview with its leader Gerry Adams and the IFM picketed Broadcasting House
1984 bombing of the Conservative Party conference
Brighton hotel bombing
Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1978)