In this oral history Michael Golash talks about how his early life influenced his decision to take a leadership role in the 1978 Metro wildcat strike and the ways that the strike played a central role in many of his future decisions. First, Golash speaks about growing up in Albany, New York where observing the city's party-machine helped to formulate his early ideas about politics. The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was another key point in his political development. Golash's politics and life path, were solidified while he was a graduate student at Columbia University, where he took part in the 1968 student strike and participated in organizing efforts in New York's garment district. Convinced that only proletariat revolution would bring true respite to the majority of the earth's people, Golash quit his PhD program in chemical engineering and moved to Washington, D.C. at the suggestion of the communist Progressive Labor Party. Renting his first apartment on Columbia Road, Golash worked a series of working-class jobs before taking an exam to become a bus driver in 1976. Golash reflects on the decisions and strategies that led to the strike that shutdown the Metrobus system for nearly seven days in 1978. He then discusses how these actions led to unprecedented benefits for bus drivers and decades of good contracts negotiated with management always fearing a repeat of the strike. He also talks about other campaigns within Metro, such as his largely successful efforts to encourage bus drivers to not enforce fair collection. Now in his late 70s, Golash speaks about his continued involvement with the Progressive Labor Party, why he thinks their brand of Marxism in increasingly relevant in today's world, and why everyone should join the party.