Alain Labrousse (19 February 1937 – 6 July 2016) was a French sociologist and journalist.
After his doctorate, he taught at the French lycée in Montevideo for five years (1965–1970), at a time when the political situation in Uruguay was growing restive.
Labrousse drew on this experience to write his first work on urban guerrilla warfare, Les Tupamaros (Seuil, 1971).
It was updated in 2009, on the eve of the ascension to power of José Mujica, the former guerrilla leader.
Labrousse lived in Latin America for two decades, with a two-year break in Morocco (1969–1971).