Piero Bernocchi (born 1947) is an Italian teacher, trade union officer, and politician. He was a principal founder of Cobas, a workerist organization.
Biography 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.
Bernocchi 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 (WSF) in Porto Alegre in 2001 and of the European Social Forum (ESF) 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.
Bibliography He has written essays, articles, and the following books: Le "Riforme" in URSS, La Salamandra, 1977 Movimento settantasette, storia di una lotta (with E. Compagnoni, P. D'Aversa and R. Striano), Rosemberg & Sellier, 1979 Capire Danzica Edizioni Quotidiano dei Lavoratori, 1980 Oltre il muro di Berlino. Le ragioni della rivolta in Germania Est, Massari, 1990 Dal sindacato ai Cobas. Massari, 1993 Dal '77 in poi, Massari, 1997 Per una critica del '68. Massari, 1998 Scuola-azienda e istruzione-merce, AA.VV., Ed. Cesp-Cobas, 2000 Vecchi e nuovi saperi, AA.VV., Ed. Cesp-Cobas, 2001 "Un altro mondo in costruzione" (con AA.VV.), Baldini & Castoldi, 2002 Nel cuore delle lotte Edizioni Colibrì, 2004 In movimento (written from 2000 to 2008), Massari, 2008 Vogliamo un altro mondo, Datanews, 2008 Benicomunismo, Massari Editore, 2012 Oltre il capitalismo, Massari Editore, 2015 Pandemie virali e contagi politici, Massari Editore, 2020; C’era una volta il PCI (with Roberto Massari), Massari Editore, 2021
References