Franco Piperno
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Franco Piperno (born 1943) is an Italian former communist militant, now a Physics professor at the University of Calabria.
A member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) before being expulsed, he then became a leader of the far-left organisation Potere Operaio, and a member of Autonomia Operaia. Arrested along Toni Negri, Oreste Scalzone and others after Aldo Moro's 1978 assassination, he was charged of insurrection and other crimes. Piperno then lived in exile in France and Canada for several years.
