Benito Milla Navarro

As a young activist, he settled in Barcelona at the beginning of the Thirty years and adhere to the "FIJL" (Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth). When the revolution broke out in July 1936, he joins the " Column Durruti. Fighting on the front of Aragon, he created a section of the "Libertarian Youth" of which he was the secretary and representative in the Durruti Column, between 1936 and 1937. This is the time when he collaborated with the newspaper "El Frente" before returning in 1938, to Barcelona, as head of the newspaper of Jeunesses Libertaires Ruta"Ruta". In February 1938, he attended the second congress of the Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth (FIJL) in Valencia, as a delegate of the 121 brigade, 26th Division (ex-Column Durruti). Refugee in France at the end of the war, he went through various camps of concentration. In 1942, in Marseille, he participated in the reorganization of the "FIJL" (in exile), and during the General Congress held on 8 and 9 April 1945 in Toulouse, he was appointed General Secretary of the organization. Charge that he abandoned in March 1946, to deal with external relations and of the management of "Ruta". In 1945, he attended the Confederal Congress (CNT) in Paris, and opposed the rebirth of the Libertarian Resistance Movement (MLR) that he thought was a germ of authoritarian attitudes.

In 1949, he left France for South America and in 1951, moved to Montevideo (Uruguay) where he created a bookstore, Place de la Liberté. He will then create and direct various journals "Cuadernos Internacionales, Deslinde, Temas", and collaborate on "En Marcha" and "Acción". In 1954, he created the Spanish book distribution company "Dilae", then founded in 1958, the editions "Alfa" which will publish more than 400 titles in Montevideo and Argentina. In 1963, he was a member of the jury of the "Grand Prix international de Poésie" of Belgium, awarded to Octavio Paz. In 1968, he moved to Caracas (Vénézuela) where he founded at the request of the National Institute of Culture and Fine Arts, the editions, "Monte Avila Editores" and in 1971 "Nuevo Tiempo".

In 1977 (after Franco's death), he returned to Spain, then moved to Barcelona, where he took, thanks to its reputation as a publisher, the Head of the editions "Laia" (he will promote the publication of anarchist works). In addition to his editorial work, he has collaborated on numerous publications such as: Açao Directa, Cenit, Hora de Poesía, Nueva Senda, Ruta, Solidaridad Obrera, Tierra y Libertad, Umbral, etc.

He died on 22 September 1987, in a hospital in Barcelona, following a long illness. His ashes were scattered in the waters of the Mediterranean.