Costa Rica
‘This Is How Change and Revolutions Begin’: Amazon Call Center Workers in Costa Rica Send Their Support to ALU
As a second Amazon warehouse in New York prepares to vote on whether to form a union, Amazon call center workers in Costa Rica send messages of support and express how important an example the ALU is to all workers across the world.
La Izquierda Diario Costa Rica
April 29, 2022
The Fight to Unionize Amazon: View from a Costa Rican Call Center
The news that workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama are fighting to unionize has spread around the world. Two Amazon workers in Costa Rica tell us how this fight is perceived from those who work in the call center "on the other side of the world."
La Izquierda Diario Costa Rica
April 3, 2021
Mass Rebellion in Costa Rica Beats Back the Government and the International Monetary Fund
A mass rebellion reminiscent of the Yellow Vest movement in France has forced the government of Carlos Alvarado to back down from its plans for destructive tax increases, cuts to public services, and privatizations. The rebellion has changed the political dynamics in a country which was formerly seen as “the Switzerland of Central America.”
Rob Lyons
October 19, 2020
Paola Zeledón: “Costa Rica’s Government Has Done Everything Possible to Maintain Capitalist Profits”
In a speech given at the international rally of the Trotskyist Fraction this May Day, Paola Zeledón, a member of the Socialist Organization (OS) in Costa Rica, speaks out about the fight of precarious workers in Costa Rica against the neoliberal measures of Costa Rica’s government.
Left Voice
May 11, 2020
General Strike Mobilizes Costa Rica
San Jose—The Costa Rican working class has again burst onto the stage of history. Public-sector workers have launched a countrywide general strike against the government’s austerity plan to deal with the country’s fiscal crisis.
Elena Zeledón
September 14, 2018