On the one hand, the workers are battling the risks of the Coronavirus and death, and on the other hand, the atrociously anti-worker Modi Government has imposed an utterly unplanned and ill-conceived lockdown, which, too, has taken hundreds of lives. No arrangements were made for those migrant workers who wanted to return to their homes. Consequently, the haphazard Shramik Special trains have caused deaths of at least 80 workers and their children. Now again, equally arbitrarily, in the name of lifting the lockdown, we are being pushed back to work in factories and workshops, so that the capitalists’ machinery of profit, which was at a standstill for months, can be set into motion again. As a result, workers in dozens of factories and offices have contracted the virus, the infection is spreading rapidly in working-class neighbourhoods and causing their deaths, however, many of these numbers are being hidden and suppressed on a massive scale. The capitalists and their agents have given us the alternative – either die of hunger and unemployment or die of Covid-19! This is no choice at all and we have the right to be protected from death by the virus as well as death from hunger and unemployment.