Franco Piperno founded the FGCI (Italy's communist youth organization) and also graduated from the University of Pisa with a degree in Physics while also being an activist, and in the summer of 1969 he joined the demonstration against Fiat in Turin.
He graduated in physics at the University of Pisa and was member of the FGCI (Italy's communist youth organization). Constituted in 1949, its peak was in the 1960s, when its membership reached 200,000 and it thus sought to gain a profile independent of its parent organisation. 
