I’ve just found out about the leftist Radical Open Access Conference in Coventry, UK, happening now…

“Two days of critical discussion and debate in support of an ‘alternative’ vision for open access and scholarly communication. The aim of the conference is to explore some of the intellectually and politically exciting ways of understanding open access that are currently available internationally. A particular emphasis is placed on those that have emerged in recent years in the arts, humanities and social sciences. … the conference will endeavour to strengthen alliances between the open access movement and other struggles …”