France's Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, is holding a crisis cabinet meeting today to assess a weekend of violence and looting across the country, in what were some of the worst scenes of public disorder in modern French history. On Saturday over half a million mainly peaceful protesters demonstrated against rising living costs and dwindling access to decent public services, including a good state education.

GUEST: Professor Patrick Bond, Political Economist and International Relations Expert from the University of Johannesburg