Ramaswami: This shows that inequalities are going to further increase in the coming days. Unemployment, deprivation, poverty and growing inequalities will be the main issues that will drive people to further resist the mounting attacks on their livelihoods and pose a challenge to the world order. Already news of protests in various countries is coming even during this pandemic. In Italy, one of the countries worst hit by the pandemic, workers organised a general strike on March 25. Workers in all non-essential services struck work for the entire day, while those employed in essential services, symbolically stopped work for a minute on that day.