Ernesto Milà

Ernesto Milá Rodríguez (Barcelona, 1952) is a Spanish far right political activist known for his thesis about the distinction between patriotism, which he supports, and nationalism, which he sees as dangerous and divisive.

Born in Barcelona to a Catalan father belonging to the Penedès rural bourgeoisie and an Extremaduran immigrant mother (herself the daughter of a Republican military officer), Milá began his political activity as one of the members of the fringe right-wing extremist groups (usually named incontrolados, "uncontrolled elements") who rallied against leftist or pro-democratic meetings during late Francoism, usually assuming the role of unofficial mob breakers and violent counter-rioters. His political affiliation began in the relatively short-lived neonazi group PENS (Partido Español Nacional Socialista).

As Xavier Casals Meseguer explains in Los Neonazis en España (Editorial Grijalbo, 1995), the PENS terrorist attacks on the headquarters of El Ciervo (a relatively center-leaning Catholic journal), theTaller Picasso (1971), Catalan libraries (such as the Cinc d'Oros, 1971), the Gran enciclopédia catalana (1974) and libraries and public centers in Valencia (1975), among others, were not prosecuted—mainly due to the fact that the Francoist police and the SECED itself, along with a former member of Franco's bodyguard corps (Luis García Rodríguez, later founder of the neo-Nazi group Estado Nacional Europeo), provided active support for said actions.

Milá then became a member of the Círculo José Antonio in Barcelona, subsequently entering Blas Piñar's Fuerza Nueva (1975), from which he was expelled in 1977, mostly on the grounds of his recent civil marriage; he then joined the Fuerza Nueva splinter group Frente Nacional de la Juventud founded by Ramón Graells Bofill, which later merged into the Youth Front.

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