Os primórdios do Socialismo em Portugal e a defesa da legislação internacional do trabalho. O Socialismo português nos congressos operários internacionais (1871-1896)

. The economic weakness of the first associations of Portuguese socialism did not allow them to attend, in person, the development of international socialism through the attendance at congresses that were periodically organized by the International Workers Association since 1872, however this fact did not prevent them from assuming the resolutions. Taken there, which were disciplined incorporated into its strategy of associative consolidation and doctrinal consolidation. Hence, for example, the founding of the Portuguese Socialist Party, as decreed in The Hague. This article aims to analyze the participation of the Portuguese socialists from this initial contact with the European internationalists until the end of the nineteenth century, already reorganized the IIª International. We also try to advance the history of Portuguese socialism in the nineteenth century by stressing the implications within its party structures