The Open Access Movement in Latin America. A continuation of the historic clashes between the capitalistic-driven forces against the socializing forces of information and knowledge sharing = El Movimiento Acceso Abierto (Open Access) en Latinoamérica. Una continuación de los históricos ataques de las fuerzas capitalistas contra las de la socialización del compartimento de información y conocimiento. Una opinión personal

This presentation intends to give a Latin America-wide account of the development of the Web-based Open Access movement. It provides a historical account of the class struggles between the capitalistic-driven appropriators of information-knowledge and the socializing and commonalizing forces, and it employs that as a framework to analyse the overall OA movement. It argues the capitalistic-driven pay-per-access publishing system is an irrational framework which should be put aside. It calls for all the OA advocates to build OA archiving and publication systems, by putting aside in the process the monopolistic systems of ISI and OCLC. It also proposes a model for both OA and E-LIS advocates in order to challenge the capitalist-driven appropriators of info-knowledge and implement, instead, a socializing-communalizing OA info-knowledge sharing estrategies: POLITICS (democracy) + SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (for the human and species survival and ecology) + COMMUNICATION (to reach out all the levels of the public). It argues the capitalistic-driven pay-per-access publishing system is an irrational framework which should be put aside.