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Rising economic stress behind protests in Brazil and Turkey

When times are good, people are happy to ignore politics, but, as the unrest in Sao Paulo and Istanbul attests, things can change dramatically

Demonstrators in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Saturday shout slogans against price increases and corruption. Photo: AFP

There is a school of thought that all popular political uprisings have economic causes.

So, for example, the Communist Party's 1949 victory in China's civil war was attributable not to the justice of its cause, nor even to superior military strategy, but rather to runaway inflation under the Nationalist government.