Gollobin was born in Newark, New Jersey to first generation immigration parents from Czechoslovakia and Ukraine, who had arrived as infants to the United States in 1885 [1].

[3] He served on the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees and helped those who were under investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee.

In January 1946 he was one of the principal organizers of a GI demobilization demonstration movement in Manila and was honorably discharged in March, 1946.

Gollobin fought for 16 years (1951–1967), all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, before victory was achieved in Hong Hai Chew v. Colding [344 U.S. 590, 595 (1953)].

[citation needed] In 1986, Gollobin published Dialectical Materialism: Its Laws, Categories and Practice, a book which he had started in 1950.