Carmen Luna Alcázar

Carmen Luna Alcázar (31 August 1888 – 18 September 1936) was a Spanish feminist and anarchist executed by Francoist forces. From Utrera in the region of Andalusia, Spain, she worked as a fruit and vegetable vendor.

Luna was an example of the nascent Republican feminism. A Republican and an anarchist, she was concerned about injustices committed by the agrarian oligarchy. From her stall, she encouraged others in her community to make their voices heard and be politically active. When the Second Republic was proclaimed, she took to the streets of Utrera to with a Republican flag. After the July 1936 military uprising in Seville, events quickly reached her hometown and sent Luna into hiding with her family. While later escaping, she decided to return because of her husband's poor health. Luna was subsequently captured and tortured, and paraded through town. She was then executed on 18 September 1936.

In 2019, a lookout near Parque del Muro in her home town of Utrera in Andalusia was renamed in Luna's honor.

Background Luna was from Utrera in the region of Andalusia, Spain. She was known as "La Luna".

Luna was born on 31 August 1888 at Calle Resolana, 29 in Utrera at three in the morning. Her father was Antonio Luna, a shoe maker. Her mother was María Dolores Alcázar. Luna was the youngest of several children. Her older siblings were Francisco, Antonio, Pastora, Rafael and Manuel.

Her first marriage was to Antonio Romero García on 7 September 1912. Romero died on 5 December 1918. Luna remarried on 20 February 1928 to Francisco Peña López. Six of the children were from her second marriage. They were Dolores, Camelia, Rosario Peña Luna, Francisco, José and Libertad Peña Luna. Records show 477 women faced this punishment at the hand's of Franco's forces in Andalusia. For feminists like Luna, the Republic was transformational when it came to women's rights. Nationalist forces represented a return to the old, to patriarchy where men controlled all aspects of women's lives, and where women were forced to stay in the home. The movement to get a street named after her was spearheaded by one of her granddaughters, Rosario Ruiz Peña. The street is located near where she lived.