Piero Bernocchi

Piero Bernocchi is an Italian teacher, trade union officer and politician. He was a principal founder of Confederazione [dei Comitati di Base|Cobas], a workerist organization.

Biography

Piero Bernocchi was born on 13 September, 1947 in Foligno, Italy. He participated in the Italian social movements of the 1960s and the 1970s. Since 1968, he has been part of the coordination team for the departments of Science, as well as the Workers' Committee and leader of the movement at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Rome. Among the main representatives of the movement of 1977, he was the director of a radio station, Radio Città Futura, a free Italian Radio.
He contributed to the creation of the Cobas school unit, which started in 1987. He is still the spokesman of the Cobas school unit and of the Cobas Confederation.
He played a notable role in the organization of the World and European Social Forum against the liberal globalization movement starting from the first edition of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in 2001 and of the European Social Forum in Florence in 2002. He is also among the leaders of the 'noglobal' Italian movement, which was started in Genoa during the anti-G8 days in July 2001.