The journalist and writer, Antonio Quintana, presented the book "Cristian@s en la Izquierda" (Christians on the Left) last Friday night at the Padre Claret Neighborhood Association of Altavista. It featured a performance by the renowned folklorist Antonio Corujo, with interventions by Mari Carmen Santacruz and Águeda Vilavert, both as testimonies from the published book, the theologian and author of the epilogue, Felipe Bermúdez, and Antonio Quintana, author and coordinator.
The Canary Islands has a new book "Cristian@s en la Izquierda" (Christians on the Left), 25 testimonies of socio-political commitments, in which 28 people participated and has been coordinated by the journalist, with a degree in Theology and activist of the HOAC, Antonio Quintana, who was also a priest in Altavista from 1983 to 1987. Thus, a historical and very vital compilation was born about how groups and grassroots Catholics lived through an era full of struggles and demands.
Cristian@s en la Izquierda (Christians on the Left), after the prologue by Días-Salazar, with a chapter on the analysis of the situation in the Canary Islands from the end of the Franco regime until the year 2000, carried out by the historian, journalist and editor Jorge Alberto Liria. This is followed by a review of the social, trade union and political organizations of the last 45 years. The third chapter addresses a reflection on the dialectical relationship between the Christian faith and politics, pointing out the eco-socialist alternative as more in line with Christianity; and the fourth, the contribution of Christian people and groups to the left from 1970 to 2000, all three written by Antonio Quintana. The volume is completed with 19 plural testimonies of Christians who have been active in social, trade union and political organizations, continuing with an eighth chapter, Other Perspectives, in which trade unionists, Marxists, communists and socialists express their experience of working and fighting with Christians. The book concludes with the epilogue by the theologian Felipe Bermúdez, in which he adapts the parable of the Good Samaritan to the serious situation of the planet.