Former Amalgamated Transit Union local 689 president Mike Golash, now an “Occupy” movement organizer, was caught on tape Sunday revealing his political goals: overthrowing capitalism in the United States and instituting a communist government.

 

“Progressive labor is a revolutionary communist organization,” Golash said during an Occupy DC “People’s Assembly” on August 19.

 

“Its objective,” he added, “is to make revolution in the United States, overthrow the capitalist system and build communism.”

 

Golash said he and his comrades are “trying to learn something from the historical revolutions of the past: the Russian revolution, the Chinese revolution, the revolutions in Cuba and Eastern Europe.”

 

“What can we learn from them so we can build a more successful movement to transform capitalist society?”

 

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“An organization has to be built which can bring down capitalism,” Golash said.