Despite Lebanon's constitutional commitments for "balanced economic development," the country's second-largest city, Tripoli, bears the brunt of colonial and post-colonial legacies of marginalization that deepened in postwar Lebanon (1990-present). While some researchers described the city as the poorest on the Mediterranean (Nehmeh 2015), the limited academic literature on Tripoli focuses on Tripoli as a city of Jihadists (Lefèvre 2022), or as a "dethroned" secondary Sunni city (Gade 2022). Erased from such narratives are critical political economy perspectives that shine a light on the pronounced class antagonisms in this city and the violence of neoliberalism. Tripoli is the birthplace of the richest men in the Arab world (Bloomberg 2021). This class of businessmen-turned-politicians monopolizes vast economic sectors (banking, real estate, telecommunications, trade) by accumulating wealth abroad and through neoliberal dispossession. Juxtaposed against these wealthy businessmen are the working poor, who comprise 57% of Tripoli's population (Nehmeh 2015, 61). Among those working poor are seasonal fishermen whose livelihoods and communities are susceptible to violent dispossessions under neoliberalism. This paper proposes to look at the impact of the ongoing 2019 neoliberal crisis – the worst according to the World Bank - on fishermen in Northern Lebanon. While doing so, it situates the crisis and its impact on seasonal workers, as is the case for fishermen within the context of adopting neoliberal policies in postwar Lebanon. The paper's objectives are the following: - To assess class disparities from the fishermen's lens and the levels of poverty and precarity and the impact of the neoliberal crisis on the fishermen's community. - To account for how fishermen organize outside the official union structure and reassert their dignity and right to access the sea and earn a livelihood. The paper will be based on ethnographic fieldwork, combining surveys, interviews, focus groups, and participant observations.