News & Updates: Campaign Updates
Our latest blogs, updates, events, and press releases.
Small is Powerful
UK households are at the mercy of an energy system dominated by large power stations and an expensive, centralised grid. Microgrids are one solution, offering cheap, flexible energy where it is needed, but we need your help NOW to tell MPs to support small-scale generation, before it’s too late.
Unions counter far-right climate lies
Trade unionists and climate campaigners issue urgent call to tackle climate misinformation and the far right
Can your union support our action?
You can take this model motion to your union branch to support our protest at this year’s Labour Conference.
Winter Fuel Payments – has Labour’s rethink gone far enough?
Pam Flynn, Chair of the North West Pensioners Association, takes a closer look at Labour’s partial U-turn on means testing Winter Fuel Payments.
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Workers Planet: new festival to unite union and climate movements
An exciting new political education festival is set to be held at TUC Congress: ‘Workers Planet’ aims to unite the trade union and climate justice movements.
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FPA brings ENERGY to tax the rich demo
FPA members take to the streets with a simple message: stop the cuts, tax the rich and provide Energy For All.
Free energy isn’t a utopian dream – it’s possible now
Ruth looks at how the scandal of curtailment – paying windfarms to turn off – is just one example of the deeply entrenched, deliberately designed unfairness in our energy system. She tackles the question of how to build a system which works for all of us, not just a wealthy few, and lays the groundwork for a new phase in Fuel Poverty Action’s Energy For All campaign.
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May 22nd, 2025: Build local power, win local change
This month’s educational session is more important than ever. With the Labour government abandoning vulnerable communities, we’re at a crossroads. How we organise now will make all the difference between a far right government in four years time, and winning a real alternative for the working classes and the planet.
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FPA release 2024 Annual Report
Our Annual Report for 2023-24 is out now! The last year saw important wins for fuel poverty campaigners, with ongoing campaign actions such as ‘warm-ups’ (occupying local buildings together to keep warm) helping to secure a partial ban on forced installations of prepayment meters. But it also saw fresh cruelty from the political class, with […]
Heat and Light are Basic Rights
Fran Lobel considers the dangers of forced prepayment meter installations and so called ‘self-disconnection’. Energy customers need the same rights and protections as domestic water customers, and we need them now, she writes.
