I definately think there is room for showing solidarity with people in the countryside. Forget the Chelsea farmers union and the gentry that dominate the Countryside Alliance. It's the small farmers and farm shops that need support. They produce the food we eat. They are often hampered from doing anything but produce the chemical-driven high yields that the EU and the government demand them to produce. As anti-globalisation and anti-capitalist activists, we should campaign for local production for local need. Farmers, particularly small holders, are the key to this and we should give them support to diversify crops, go organic and help the local wildlife.

The problem is that many on the left are silent on countryside matters because they see it as the stronghold of the right. But rural people are just as adversely affected by capitalism as anyone else - and the issues concerning public transport and environment are just as important as any urban area.

The next MayDay demonstration should be in the countryside. It's hard to police and could cause just as much mayhem. I suggest the M11 junction that leads to Stansted Airport. There's a petrol station and a group of corporate businesses in the service station plus the worries local people have over airport expansion proposals and creeping urbanisation. An occupation of the roundabout would close down the M11 and Stansted airport. How about it?