Eton May Day boy back for more

A May Day protester thrown out of Eton after violent clashes in London two years ago will return to the capital for this week's protests as a founder member of a radical Cambridge University anarchist group.

Pictures of Matthew MacDonald throwing a chair through the window of a McDonald's became one of the most vivid images of a day of violence which saw 95 arrests and 29 people held for violent disorder on May Day 2000.

The committed schoolboy republican, who was then 17, moved in elite circles close to Princes William and Harry during term time at Eton College, but was expelled soon after the riots.

Now MacDonald and a group of fellow students from King's College, Cambridge, where the 19-yearold is studying history, have formed a new direct action group and will head to London for Wednesday's May Day protests, pledging to oppose the monarchy and highlight poverty and injustice around the world.

However, MacDonald is sure to be high on police lists of potential troublemakers on Wednesday.

He formed the Cambridge Anti-Capitalist Action Society with fellow student Daniel Hart-Mayer. The group is made up almost entirely of public schoolboys and are known around college as "champagne anarchists". The group is funded by the Students Union, which can disband any society whose members commit criminal acts using university funds.

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